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building that from the time we moved into it was not large enough to house the Department of Labor because the Department of Labor had so grown. When that building was designed during the Hoover administration, it never occurred to any body that the Department of Labor would ever amount to much, or ever be a sizable department, or ever have any large number of employees. So it was designed for a much smaller and less active department.

Altogether too much has spent on elegance, fine vistas, and that kind of thing, with extremely meager rooms for working, very bad storage facilities, and all that kind of thing. Nevertheless, it was a relief to set to it, to be in a place that was clean and had some a elbow room, where we could have a luncheon, could have access to an auditorium, and so forth.

Getting back to Congress, my relations with Congress were always all right so far as I knew, except for this little episode with Congress. I made this great effort to be on good terms with them. I never had a rebuff from a Labor Committee so far as I know, except this one from Connery. He was just rude, that's all. If it was a mistake in protocol, certainly the Senators didn't think it was bad. At any rate, if it was an error, it was the innocent error of a newcomer in an excess of courtesy. I wasn't asking