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It can be settled later.”

At any rate, between us we were persuasive enough to get him to make up his mind right then. He said finally, “Well, I think you're right. All right, put it in the bill and tell Wagner that it is to be in the bill.”

I thought quickly and said, “Wouldn't it be all right if I used your telephone now and tell him, because he may get away from the place where he is?” It was then about three o'clock in the afternoon on a Saturday.

He said, “All right.”

So I called and got through to Wagner. I said, “I'm here in the President's study with him. I've consulted with him about this public works title going in with the NRA, which he says you're going to introduce on Monday. He says he wants the public works section attached.”

The President then took the phone and said, “Hello, Bob. I think that's right, don't you? Frances says that she thinks it's best, and I think it's the right thing, don't you, Bob?”

Senator Wagner gave him a spiel. I say all this because I wouldn't have done this to Lewis Douglas if he hadn't done worse than that to me. I felt mean as I did it, but I knew that if I locked the matter up with the Senator and the President, the President telling the Senator