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He said, “Can't you think of some way that would make it seem glorious?”

I said, “Why don't you do this. You might send for Hugh and ask him to come over just at the end of the Cabinet meeting. That will please him as a mark of attention.” I knew by this time that Johnson was a very vain man and could always be touched by some special mark of attention. “Ask him to come into the Cabinet meeting. Then say that everybody in the Cabinet is so happy that this bill has gone through. Thank him very much for his contribution to it. Admit before the Cabinet that he's thought about it a great deal and has made a great contribution to the idea. Tell him how able you think he is, and so forth. Then say that you called him in because you wanted to tell the Cabinet at this time that you've decided to appoint him as the administrator of the National Recovery Act. Tell him that you have, and then after all the praise say that because of the utterly remote connection of Title II and Title I you think it will be better and a relief for him to take this terrible administration of public works off his shoulders, not administering Title II with Title I. It's a double job of contraries and you have decided to place this in the jurisdiction of one of the Cabinet officers. Then appoint Ickes and tell the Cabinet so. Half an hour