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I don't recall anything else in our first conversation, except that I sought clearance on a few small things, asking if it would be all right to do this, this and this. He always said yes.

There had to be a reorganization of the Labor Department. I really hate to dignify it by calling it a reorganization. The Labor Department had very little content. There wasn't much to reorganize. It was more an organization of the Labor Department.

The first thing I did was to reorganize the Immigration and Naturalization Service. That was the outstanding scandal. That service was not only full of things that ought not to be done, but it was frightfully incompetent and inefficient, with old-fashioned procedures. One of the reasons that these abuses could take place was that the method of doing things was so clumsy and so burdensome, and there were so many tops to it all. I think I've mentioned that on the day I took office seven people introduced themselves to me by saying that they were “head of immigration. “Then there were all of these districts, each with a district head. There was a commissioner of immigration at Boston, a commissioner