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He had said that he would never speak to me. Green had announced to the press that he would never be reconciled to me and I had announced that I would be reconciled to him even if he wasn't reconciled to me. So I called up his office and did the unprecedented thing of asking if the secretary of Labor might pay call on Mr. Green. I wanted to pay a call of respect and interest. It was his duty to come and call on me, which he hadn't done. I went promptly and called on him within the first ten days.

When he received me in his office, he was politeness and courtesy itself. I asked him to come to a meeting that we were going to have at the Department of Labor. He said, “Yes indeed, Madam Secretary, certainly I'll be glad to. I don't know that I can come myself, but if I can't I'll send ‘So-and-So.” Anyhow, he showed no signs of being unreconciled and I never gave it out publicly that I had been to call on him because I didn't want to humiliate him. When he swore that he would never be reconciled to me, I had said to the press, “Well, I'll certainly be reconciled to Bill Green and I hold nothing against him.”

So the President said, “Now that you're all reconciled to Bill Green, you go sell him this idea that a dollar a day is good wages. Besides this isn't wages at all. This is just relief.” I don't know whether that was his idea or