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with them, you must do it in the morning. So I asked them to come at ten o'clock in the morning.

David Walsh replied at once that he would be very glad to come, that he would issue the invitation to the committee and he was sure that a number of them would be very glad to come also. I didn't get a letter from Connery, but in the same evening papers I got a reply from Connery made to the press to the effect that the Secretary of Labor had asked the committee to come to see her, but that if the Secretary of Labor wanted to see members of Congress, she could come to their office and confer with them. They would receive her any time she came. My letter was most polite and his answer was a very rude thing for him to do. The Senators had accepted my invitation and came.

Of course, I had telephone messages from eight or ten members of the committee that they were chagrined, mortified, and apologetic, feeling terribly that the Chairman hadn't consulted them. Of course they would be delighted to come to call on me. They appreciated the courtesy of asking them to see the Department. I really had thought it would be a good idea for them to see the Department and meet the members of the staff.

I don't know if there was any protocol that I didn't understand. I never had heard of any such protocol as that,