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them to come to the Department of Labor in order to humiliate and degrade them. It's difficult for a lady to show the proper courtesies. You have to think about it, because the gentleman always wants to pay for the bill, so to speak. So the lady has to study out what she will do. She can't take a person to a restaurant, for instance, because the man will think he must pay the bill. So the only thing you can do is to belong to a club and ask him to a club where he can't sign the check. You have to think up ways. I could always ask them to come to my office to lunch with me. They didn't know where the lunch came from and couldn't pay for it. That kind of thing I could do. So I had thought of it as a courtesy to invite them to come to the office. I thought of it as very useful to have them talk to the staff members, but Connery didn't see it that way.

There was a great fuss made in the papers about my supposed ill treatment of Pat Harrison. Supposedly he asked to see me, was granted an appointment, came to my office, was kept waiting twenty minutes and then was told to come back the next day. That isn't true.

Pat Harrison did come to see me within the first ten





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