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Well, I was good and mad. I have never spoken to Alfred Sloan but once since then. That's not really true now that I think about it. I have spoken to him two or three times, but not at length. However, I never have forgotten it. I have never told that story to anybody. I swore Susanna and our guest to silence. I swore them never to repeat this, after I cooled off and realized it shouldn't be told. Of course, I never told the union about this. I just told them he'd run out again. That was all. I wasn't going to let them go any further with their plans to involve more people in it.

I think, getting back to the phone conversation, that I finally told him to keep his mouth still, to stop talking like that, and I think I hung up finally. I don't think I threatened him with anything but hell fire, which, I admit, was not within my power to administer to him. That was all I could think of. I had no official, or administrative, or legal penalties which I could impose upon him. He was just hearing from a decent woman what she thought.

Well, I never told this story to anybody for a long while. I didn't even tell it to the President. He would have loved it, but that's why I didn't tell him.