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Then he said to Johnson that he had discussed this matter with his Cabinet colleagues and that we had come to the conclusion that this new thing was so enormous and so consuming of his time and thought that he ought to be relieved of any responsibility for public works, which was just an ordinary, routine thing. He therefore had decided to have that administered separately.

I saw Johnson beginning to turn color. From having looked like a normal man, he began to look red, then dark red, then purplish. He was a very emotional man and his psychosomatic responses to his emotional disturbances were always very obvious. You could tell what went on because everything about him changed. I almost used to think his hair stood on end sometimes. Terrific physical changes came over him under the pressure of emotions. I knew he was wild sitting there in his chair as he heard the President say he was going to have it administered separately.

The President went on to say that he thought it would be the best thing to do, and that we had all decided upon that. He, the President, was going to announce something that nobody else knew. He was appointing “that fellow down there,” pointing at him, Harold Ickes, to take over the administration of this public works end of it. There was a kind of general laugh around the Cabinet table, which