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the first floor of the Embassy where the commission on studying labor legislation was meeting, because several days after Mrs. Rosenberg arrived Miss Dickerman arrived. I can't say whether it was the second, third or fourth day, but it was several days after Mrs. Rosenberg arrived that Miss Dickerman came in. I had, of course, told the commission that Miss Dickerman had been appointed and was coming. Gerard and Will both took the same position that I had, “We already have an extra piece of baggage. Two won't do any harm” Neither one of them were anti-feminists. It wasn't that that bothered them. It would have been the same thing if it had been the principal of a boys' private school who was a friend of Mr. Baruch's, or if it had been a man who had been in the Social Security Board and wanted to go to see his mother in Hungary and was the friend of a friend of a Senator. They were not naturals for the job and it had bothered the others, but they finally shrugged their shoulders and said, “Well, here we are and we'll do our duty.”

I think for a while Gerard laid it against me because I had succumbed in the end, but as the years went on he forgave me many things with regard to the pressures that were put on me. However, he had thought I would stand up against this kind of pressure and not give in to it, although there was no principle at stake. The only thing that was at stake