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up for years. I have boxes full of names of good people I have met. That means that these are people who would be good in the government if there was the right opportunity for them. Now the people that I thought of at that time don't come clearly to mind, because I tend to confuse the people I knew then with the people I later became acquainted with. I don't get the sequence easily.

I know, anyhow, that the matter wasn't sewed up then, but I was pretty sure that was where it would end. I thought Johnson would be named.

Incidentally, when Baruch came to me, he said he couldn't go to the President. I later found out why. It had to do with the President's ordering all the gold to be turned In. At the time I talked with Baruch over in our house about Johnson, I didn't know that this plan of the Treasury and the President to call in all the gold was even under consideration. It hadn't been discussed in any Cabinet meeting. It hadn't been discussed in any company of which I was a member, nor was there any reason why it should be. It had nothing to do with my special functions. It was a matter of such delicate effect upon the fiscal policy of the country and on the banks and banking institutions that it certainly ought to have been handled with great secrecy and great privacy until such time as a decision