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rumor got around that the President could never get rid of people. His was the first episode that ever arose signifying it. However, I don't think it was true. I think the President got rid of lots of people when necessary. I respect him for his respect for the individual and his human problem.

Before that time the only major person to leave the administration had been Peek and I don't think the President was the one to personally get rid of him. The President didn't take much of a hand in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration program or follow it very closely. Peek might have been gotten rid of by being appointed by the President to some foreign trade commission, but Wallaco really did it. It was always under Wallace's jurisdiction after all. AAA wasn't an independent agency. NRA was an independent agency. Peek had no direct access to the President. He was Wallace's man. Peek may have been able to see the President, but officially he didn't have direct access. His leaving waan't anything like in the magnitude of this Johnson thing. I don't think you can say that the President forced Peek to leave. Wallace made him leave. The President knew about it and assented, but it wasn't anything that the President was personally interested in.

At any rate, that's what the President proposed to