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Democrat, I couldn't have kept him. I couldn't do any work with a person who didn't know anything and hadn't don anything in all the years he had been there. I said that I knew that of course he understood the situation and that he was probably prepared to resign and had made other plans for himself.

He did hem and haw and say he hadn't made plans, and so forth. I said, “Well, perhaps you'd better make such plans as soon as possible. I don't want to press you, but I think you should be fully resigned by the first of April.” In other words, I gave him a courtesy extension until the first of April. The poor old fellow was all right. He didn't mean any harm.

So there had been the problem of reorganizing that. Mr. White was helpful to me in pointing out the terrific over-expenditure of funds that they had had in the employment division without any results. It had been a place where they had sunk money and hadn't It had any results. There was no graft there that I could see. There may have been, but we had no knowledge of it. There was just total non-action. I knew that I must get rid of Alpine.

One of the first things that I knew had to be done was that the Bureau of Labor Statistics had to be redone. Ethelbert Stewart was a good man, but was not technically