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Edward Shaughnessy and Irving F. Wixon and others. They were very fine, able men who were just frustrated. Nobody wanted them to do anything. They never saw the Secretary. They didn't know they were wanted. The whole thing was run through this fellow Garsson. They just barely crawled around doing their obvious duty.

I cleaned out and fired this Garsson squad on March 8th. I had to go quick or something would have been planted on me. Mr. White told me, “If you're going to do it, you'd better do it quick, Madam Secretary, because they'll plant something on you.”

I remember saying to him, “Is it as bad as that?”

He said, “Yes.”

I said, “Did they plant something on Mr. Doak”

He said, “I wouldn't like to say, but they have something on him and that's why he never could touch them or disturb them no matter that did. Nothing I ever said to Doak could ever make him touch this crowd.”

I never heard him gossip around about that so I assumed this was a confidential and truthful communication to me.

I moved quickly. Within a few hours I got a telegram from a man who was the President of the Immigration Inspectors' Association, which had about a thousand members. The immigration