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of the White House. I went in the procession so as not to create any comment. If I wasn't there, the newspapers would have had to know where I was and why I wasn't there. It would have been played up into being either a rift between me and Roosevelt, or the fact that I was doing something that the newspapers ought to know about.

So I went to the Hill. I rode down in the procession and I went down to the reviewing stand. I stood on the reviewing stand and all the photographs were taken showing me right there on the reviewing stand. I told the President, “I'll tell you a secret. I hope I can trust you not to repeat it. Keep it to yourself.”

He laughed, as usual, when I said anything like that to him.

I said, “I have some of the people from General Motors coming to see me today and I'm going to slip right away now out the back door of the White House and am going to meet them privately. Nobody is to know it. I have promised that no one will know they're here. I ean to keep that promise. It's very important that we should. I'm hoping we can make some headway toward the settlement of this strike.”

He said, “Good, all right. I won't say a word.”