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you won't have any more troubles.”

Well, the President was somewhat surprised. He hadn't expected this kind of a report and recommendation from Bruere, but I think it solved the problem for him in his own mind. I think in his own mind he had thought that Henry Morgenthau was a little young and not with the kind of background one would have anticipated or expected to be selected as Secretary of the Treasury. It solved Roosevelt's problem in his own mind if Bruere thought it was all right. Within a very short time he appointed him.

I think that Bruere, if pressed, would have been Secretary of the Treasury. I think he would have served if he had been asked, although he told me he wouldn't and it shouldn't be done. I think he was probably right because I think he probably would have had a blow-up sooner or later. But he remained always a friend of the President and he remained one of the people that McIntyre always sent for. The President always wanted to know when he was in town and often saw him about one problem or another. I don't think, however, that as much use was made or Bruere's very unique knowledge and skill as might have been. Bruere always liked Roosevelt very much, always voted for him, and yet I think Roosevelt smelled in him the makings of a skeptic. That's true too. Henry is always a skeptic. He always