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I didn't think that Dan Tobin, who was popularly proclaiming himself, and whom the AF of L was proclaiming, would be a good person. I frankly didn't. I thought he would be a terrible person for that Presidential appointment. He had been Chairman of the Labor Committee of the Democratic National Committee for the campaign. He hadn't done anything except blow hard, as he did all the time. I guess he raised some money from some unions, which is, of course, all right. That's a good and useful thing to do. But he added nothing to the equipment of the committee with regard to ideas, programs, or speeches. I daresay he probably alerted certain labor unions to turn out to campaign meetings, or to turn out to meetings at which Roosevelt was going to speak himself. I had known him before, but I got to know him more at headquarters and I thought he just didn't have anything to him. He was all confused most of the time.

I later knew Dan Tobin very well and I now see what his virtues are. He can act in a situation that requires vigorous and almost violent action. He can make people scared of him. But he's more likely to bluff than he is anything else. He acts like that when he hasn't got any real authority. He's a very peculiar man, but he has certain virtues and they're very useful at certain times.