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“Well,” she said, “he writes a column for a series of papers beginning with a town in Wisconsin (Racine, or one of those) and writes for a series of papers in towns about that size all through Wisconsin, Minnesota, and other Northwestern states. He takes himself very seriously. He's just wild because you didn't have time to see him.”

I said, “Well, I don't know why I should. I saw 'So-and-So' yesterday, ‘So-and-So’ the day before. Why should I see him?”

“Oh,” she said, “he'll just kill you if you don't. You'll have a terrible time.”

So I let her call up and make an appointment for Rodney Dutcher who came over. He was hurt that I had said no, and he never let up. Although he was very much for everything that Roosevelt was doing, and everything we did in the Department of Labor, he would write his columns saying that this was a good idea, but he would give a dirty dig at me in the course of saying that what was being done was okay. It was very funny. His little feelings were hurt.

I realized that you had that quality in a great many of the working press. They were the most sensitive people I over saw. I always used to try to think about what in the world ever happened to make them that way. They had no personal distinction. They had no personal security, I