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Actually I kept White for six months. At the end of the six months he retired. We gave him a nice little dinner. He'd become quite on with the new staff by that time. They liked him. We hadn't made a Democrat out of him though. We gave him a little dinner at the Army-navy Club and it was very pleasant. He was a firm friend of mine and had been a great help. He remained a good Republican and a black one. He used to say,” I'm not one of these modern liberal Republicans. I'm a black one. “But he liked to see things done right and done honestly. He wouldn't have agreed with me at all about the legislative program, but he did agree about efficient, competent and honest administration. That he was prepared to help out on. He was very helpful on the reorganization of the Immigration Service when we got into that.

I had asked Mr. Harry Hull for his resignation as Chief of the Bureau of Immigration. I had asked Mr. Alpine for his resignation. I had cleaned out the Section 24 squad. I had definitely decided to retain Abbott and Anderson. I had faced the facts of a vacancy in the Bureau of Labor Statistics and determined to find a good and competent person to replace Stewart. I tried the second in command in the Bureau of Labor Statistics because I began to get letters which required knowledge and information, about how many this and that. I tried to get the second in command in the