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my secretary. I've come to a conclusion that I don't think I'd better do that. I owe political obligations and I think I'd better appoint Guernsey Cross.' Until that minute I hadn't thought of Guernsey Cross. I said, ‘In the first place, I need a big, tall, strong man that I can lean on, who can go everywhere with me, be in the most intimate relationship with me when we travel and help me about all kinds of physical things. Thus I can go into a meeting with my secretary, leaning on him. I don't want to have a state policeman around all the time to lean on. My secretary's plausible. Besides I owe Guernsey Cross a great deal. Politically he did something for me.' I talked to him about Guernsey Cross until I was blue in the face.”

I knew why he did that. He was just putting Al off and he wasn't giving Al a chance to make any argument. He said, “I let him know that the matter was settled. I actually hadn't asked Guernsey Cross, but I let Al think it was all settled and sewed up.”

The Governor never told me what Al had said to him, but he knew that it was a disappointment to Al. He said, I think, “I know that's a great disappointment to Al, but I just can't. The more I've thought of it, the more I've thought that Eleanor was right. I just can't have her around. It's going to be hard enough for me to make up my mind anyhow. I





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