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a younger man and I could. I said, “I think that was a dreadful thing for you to do. You got me out of bed. I was sound asleep. Certainly my voice was rough. I wasn't crying. I never do cry. I can't cry. You ought to know that. If I could cry, I wouldn't be crying to you. If I had been awake, I wouldn't have used the expression, 'Isn't it awful? I'm very discouraged.' If I had been fully awake, I wouldn't have said that, but you're entitled to print that I said that it was an awful situation and that I was very discouraged. I said that and you're entitled to print it. But you're not entitled to print that I burst into tears.”

The Washington Post also said that I would leave the Department of Labor. That was just invention.

I did say, as the Post claims, that Sloan double-crossed me. I think may even have told Cyrus Sulzberger that Sloan double-crossed me. I told more than one person, and Sloan did. However, I'm getting ahead of the story. I'll get to this later.

At any rate, the whole rampus with General Motors was caused by the fact that General Motors would not deal with the union for all their employees. The strikes had begun either early in January, or in December, because on Inauguration Day, January 20, 1937, a considerable