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At any rate, I remember that he finally came over and gave the President a final report. He made a very brief final report, some of which be read to me and which I knew about. He evaluated these various plans, put Sprague in his proper place, because Sprague had been very useful. Some people had just hit the ceiling about Sprague because they just didn't like the advice he was giving the President. He was the one who told the President, and this confused some people, “We're just drifting along, and when you're drifting along, You can't have a clear policy. You can't have a definite pattern. If you're in a boat in a fog, you drift and listen. When you get near the rocks. You drift the other way. When you hear the surf on the shoals, you steer away form that.” The President understood him perfectly because the President was also a seafaring man. The President used that exact illustration in a press conference not long after he'd talked with Sprague and the country hit the ceiling because the President said, “We're drifting along in a fog.” To drift in a fog is a very real experience, but people don't like to be told that you can't have a clear plan, that you've got to steer by ear, that you can't set your compass and go in a particular direction when you're in a fog and don't know where the rocks or shoals are. People had traced that remark to Sprague because he