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He was having a good deal of publicity, therefore. He was a person of great charm. He'd been in Washington long enough to know how you get things in the press. He'd served a term in Congress and he knew how you get things into the papers. I always have thought that he rather let it be known that he was the President's personal adviser, but the President certainly gave a great deal of color to that because he did see Lewis all the time at odd moments. The Director of the Budget has access to the President more easily, more frequently, than any other responsible operating officer. That is natural. It's true to this day (1953) and it will always be true, because in the whole question of financing, either in their planning or expenditure of the money, the Director of the Budget is vital. He doesn't just operate once a year. He operates all the time. More and more he has to advise the President about what the effect of any proposed legislation will be upon the budget and tax situation.

Harold Smith, who later became Director of the Budget, hadn't even been heard of at this time. He was out in Michigan somewhere. I don't know what he was doing. Frank Murphy wasn't even Governor of Michigan yet at this time, and Frank Murphy was the one who dragged Harold Smith out from wherever he was and set him up in Michigan as his Director of the Budget. That was where he came from. Then