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Sloan picked it up and, I'm sure, believed it, though it had no bearing on the strike. You ask if I explained myself to him on this point. No, you don't explain yourself. If you've made a mistake, don't make it worse by explaining yourself. I had suffered an error of judgment when I spoke as I did. What I said was not wrong. It was all right and expressed a proper view of the situation.

Louis Stark, by the way, wrote that story correctly. Of course, he was present. He knows what I said and why I said it. He knew the point of it. He said to me once afterwards when I asked him why they had misquoted me, “Well, these boys don't know anything. They just don't know anything. They don't know anything about strikes or labor law,” which is true of the general line of reporters. “They don't know anything about the relations between employers and employees, and, what's more, they don't know much of anything. They don't know the difference between ‘undesirable’ and ‘illegal.’ They don't know how to determine if a situation is legal.”

Anyhow, that was that. They had gotten me into trouble and that was another one of the things I always had difficulty with.

The President, however, understood me perfectly. I told him that somebody in the Attorney General's office