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Margaret Coit recently verified that for me, by saying that he was a man who was very intuitive in his decisions. You tell them a lot of things and he doesn't seem to realize any of them, but the next morning he wakes up with a program. He has made a sub-conscious solution, or sub-conscious pattern of action.

However, Hancock was very useful because he had a trained economist's, statistician's and operator's mind. He was able to dig and find facts and balance them. Therefore, he was an ideal person to be associated with Baruch, if Baruch does work by hunches, and I think he does. The curious part of it is that Hancock has never attempted to break away from Baruch. You always supposed he would because he had such individual, separate ability.

Johnson began to be obviously unsuitable as Director of the NRA about a year or so later, though I don't remember just how many months went by before people began coming to me, and to other people I guess, privately, and saying, “Something's got to be done. This has got to and. This can't go on. Johnson doesn't know that he's about. Johnson's crazy. Johnson's drunk. Johnson is drunk so much that he can't keep track of things. Johnson's head is swelling so that he doesn't know that he isn't the President and isn't God. He's making promises that no





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