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work in comfort and keep him as long as possible.

Then newspaper men began giving themselves airs in every department. They demanded a press room. They demanded in the Department of Labor, where we were overcrowded, press room fitted up with telephones paid for by the government. They'd make this demand on me first and I'd say, “Oh no, we can't possibly do that. We haven't any room ourselves. We barely crowd into this building as it is. I have to coop up some important bureaus now. I couldn't give you a press room. What do you need it for? We have a press officer here. If there's anything to be given out, he'll give it to you.”

“Yes, but we want to keep people here all the time.”

“What do you want to keep people here all the time for?”

“Well, so we'll know what's going on.”

“You'll know what's going on. You'll be informed.”

“But we want somebody here.”

I wouldn't give them a press room. Finally they pressured so hard that they reached McIntyre. He telephoned me and said, “You'd better watch out. They'll get you yet. They're so mad because you won't give them a press room.”

I said, “Why should I give them a press room?”

“Well,” he said, “They expect it. Everybody else has fixed them up a press room.”