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I said, “Oh, Mr. Baruch, that's a dreadful thing to tell me. Why don't you tell the President? You're the one who knows this. I don't know this. If he isn't fit to be that, you know his weaknesses. I don't. I never met him until a few weeks ago. You should be the one to tell him.”

He said, “Well, I can't.”

This was the first time I realized that Baruch had some sensitive edge about the President, which I later learned the reason for, although I didn't know it at the time.

I said, “Mr. Baruch, the President thinks the world of you. You've been a great help. He would recognize your superior knowledge in this matter.”

He said, “I can't. I just can't go to the President right now. Please believe that. But you go. You must intervene. It's your duty.”

So I thought about it. I felt terrible doing a thing like that, but I said to myself, “I'll at least carry this news. I won't evaluate it.”

I did that the next time I saw the President. I said, “Baruch came to the house the other night. I thought he came to make a call, but I discovered that he came to say something in particular. This is what he said. I am going to hand it on to you because he asked me to.” So I told him that he had said about Hugh.