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He would have loved it in the wrong way. If I had told it to him in one way, he would have just thought it was killingly funny and felt more than ever that Alfred Sloan was a low comedy figure, which he thought anyhow. Or else, if I had told it another way, it might have made him very angry at Alfred Sloan. None of these were sensible. Anyhow, I don't do that kind of thing. If I observe something humiliating and unfortunate about a person, I never tell it to anybody else. It's a deep-seated principle of mine. I don't hand it on. I certainly wouldn't hand it on to the President. He didn't need anybody to jazz him up at that time about how badly the operators of the General Motors were behaving. Just from reading the newspapers and talking with Frank Murphy you knew that. We had started out with considerable sympathy for them because the sit-down was a baffling situation, but we changed our minds. They never behaved like intelligent men.

The greatest temptation I had to tell this was to tell it to Frank Murphy, whom I talked with freely and openly every day, or practically every evening. We talked to exchange information about the progress. I had told him that I was hopeful. He was very anxious, naturally, to have something come about. He knew that