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he was appointing me. He said, “You said, “You saw it in the newspapers. Those were trial balloons. Molly talked to you.” I think he said, “Jim talked to you too.” Well, I'm not positive that Jim Farley did, as a matter of fact, but it's not impossible.

I then said, “Well, yes, you're right. I have been able to give it some offhand consideration, without actually thinking that it was positively being offered to me. I have canvassed what it would mean and what the problem is. I know that it's nothing to you what my problem is. That's none of your business and you don't have to think about it. I have a problem, but you don't have to think about that now.

“In the first place, I really don't understand what the duties are. I've looked up everything I can find on the law. What the duties of the Secretary of Labor are are pretty vague so far as the laws of the United States reveal in the statutes.”

“Yes,” he said, “that's so, I guess, but that's the case with every Cabinet officer except the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary of War also has some specific duties laid out in the law. For the most part the others are pretty vague. That's the kind of a government we have. The Cabinet of the President is advisory to the President and to anybody else that they can get to listen to them.” He was still joking a little. “But, of