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it. There's nothing in it. There's no paid job in this for anybody.”

“Well, I don't know. You know Bob. He says he wasn't consulted and he says there's somebody he thinks ought to be on it.”

“Well,” I said, “who is it he wants on it?”

“Mrs. Rosenberg,” he said, “do you know her?”

“I know who she is. Do you know her, Mac?”

“Nope, never heard of her,” said McIntyre, “but that's what Senator Wagner wants.”

I said, “Who is she? Why does the Senator want her?”

“I don't know,” he said. “I don't know, but he does. You'd better talk with him. He talked to the President.

He can always get to the President. The President tossed it to me and said to call you up.”

I sent for Lubin then and said, “Senator Wagner is the one who wants Mrs. Resenberg. How does Senator Wagner happen to know Mrs. Rosenberg and what does he care whether she goes or not? Now tell me before I talk to him. What's it to him?”

Well, Lubin blushed again. He looked uncomfortable. He shifted from one foot to the other. He knew Rifkind, the Senator's Number I man, very well indeed. He said,





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