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Certainly it proved to be true. You can't create it in Washington. I didn't know enough about the Congress and the federal government to know just why you couldn't, but I just felt that it was going to be big and that I would have to cope with slaughter house owners in Chicago, steel companies in Pittsburgh, and so on. In the State of New York we had a steel company and we coped with it all right. We could get down to business with them, but this was different.

I dreaded, more than I can tell, what I was sure would be inevitable publicity which I would have to face and live in. I'm a very shy person by nature. I've overcome such shyness as prevents me from acting. I had to do that very early in my life. But I never have been able to overcome the shyness which shies away from and is disturbed by people talking about me, or anything being said about me in the public prints, or anything of that sort. Having my picture published is agony to me. It nearly kills me. It does to this day. I suffer pain. I now accept it as one of the pains which life imposes upon you. I've had to accept it as a discipline in the acquiring of the grace of humility, which is the greatest of the virtues, the hardest to acquire. With me, some of this agony about privacy is an aspect of the sin of pride. I know that.