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slightly. She was a pretty woman and very nice, very much more polished than he was. Peek was kind of rough. His wife had a lot of style and had been all smoothed off somehow. She had very nice social manners. Baruch never took Peek back after he left the government.

Baruch has real insight into such situations. Baruch knew how he could use people. Baruch said to me, “I could use Hugh Johnson before he went into government. I could always use him. I could get enormous work out of Hugh. The President can't use him because he can't pay enough attention to him. It'll go to his head. He won't know how to keep him in his place.”

That began to be so right away. Baruch didn't say to me then that Hugh was a born dictator, but I said it to him when the crack-up was coming and I was asking him to take Hugh back. I said, “Hugh acts like a born dictator, although I feel that nothing in his past experience would make him that way.”

Baruch said, “I think you're right. He has some of the elements of a born dictator in him, although he basn't got the strength or the mentality to bear up those personal hebits. Because he hasn't that strength or mentality you can call him a bully. He's a well-developed bully. When you give him his head, that's what he becomes.”