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life. You saved my home.” They associated him with what NRA had done or was about to do for them.

All this was heady medicine. It had the effect of getting him into a kind of a mood of elation. All this impaired his judgment, I really think. In his own office and in the immediate surroundings of the NRA he began to demand a kind of adulation. He thought people were disloyal if they weren't practically greeting him with a cheer every time he walked down the corridor. When he went to an NRA hearing, he liked to have the people who were working in the offices of the NRA come out of the offices, stand at the door, clap their hands and say, “Good luck. Good luck to you, General Johnson. Bully for you. Get a code.” He liked to go to the hearings with the cheers of his fellow workers in the office surrounding him. He wanted it to be a family. He wanted them to be very close to each other. He wanted them to be very loyal to each other. He wanted them to feel that they were separate and different from other people and all bound up in this great cause.

He went so far as to ask Mary Rumsey, who was rich and had money enough to do it, to give a great evening party, to which she invited everybody who worked for the NRA. It was quite a party, I may say. It was for the people who worked for the NRA in Washington. We took