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in my presence that it was to be done, it was a fait accompli, it wouldn't be changed before Monday noon. Before I went to meet the President I asked Wagner where I could reach him. I told him I was going to see the President about public works and that I was consulting him first to see if he agreed with me that it should be in the act. If the act had come up to Wagner without it, he was going to introduce it. He was going to go along with the President and whatever the President wanted. I thought of looking it up right then that way, and, as I say, I never would have done it to Lewis Douglas if he hadn't done worse to me. If he had treated me in the open and argued with me in front of the President the arguments for and against public works, and then abided by the result of the decision, I wouldn't have done this to him, but I just didn't think it was the right way to handle things. By this time I knew that he would always go around and about and in the back door. He had been around a decision that had been at least tentatively made and where all present thought there was no disagreement several times. He never made his disagreement public so that you could cope with it.

Well, anyhow, that was done. Charlie Wyzanski always says that it was the first great insight he ever had into how the government of the United States is operated.