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qualified as a statistician. He had resigned to President Hoover, both President Roosevelt, and had resigned in anger because of the fact that the President gave out employment statistics which were incorrect and misleading, but which were handed him by his Secretary of Labor. Stewart was very sore. He protested to the Secretary of Labor. Then when they were given out the next two weeks he, protested direct to the President. The President just didn't listen to him and gave them out a third time. Then Stewart hit the ceiling. He thought he was enough of a person to make a stir when he resigned. So he resigned in anger and gave out a statement, which of course fell flat in Washington. Washington paid no attention to him. I did. I had congratulated him on his stand, and a few others had. Still I didn't want him back in the Labor Department. He was not technically qualified for the job, although he was an honest man and had done a good job. I knew that if that Bureau of Labor Statistics was to become anything again and that if the confidence of the people in the figures given out was to be restored, it would have to be overhauled. People had lost total confidence in the BLS because they thought that these figures emanated from the BLS, which they didn't. Anyhow, I knew that we had to get a first class man and I already had my plans as to how we were to proceed.