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Mr. Taylor was in a group that wouldn't sit down with him when they met in my office in a semi-official way. He behaved, in other words, like the perfect gentleman. It was really extraordinary.

That was that. There wasn't any more to that. It was amusing, but that was all.

Anyhow, getting back to the General Motors situation and the trouble in the steel mills. I saw Mr. Taylor the same week that I saw Stettinius and said to him much the same things that I had said to Stettinius. Certainly Ed Stettinius had told him everything that had passed between us. Curiously I've had verification of that during the last few months (1953) from this young man Ed Dickinson, who was then working in the U.S. Steel Company and was Mr. Stettinius' assistant. He was a young man then. He's now a mature fellow who has done a brilliant piece of work on the ECA, and later on the National Security Council. He's one of the best of the people in Washington. He's become a friend of mine since he came to Washington. He remembers that situation clearly and he knew that Stettinius came right back to the office and told Taylor everything that had transpired. I called Mr. Taylor within hours, sometime that day probably. We met briefly. I said to him about what I