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and over again, I am told by others who were there. He would get his own way by not hearing the opposition, and going right ahead as though what he'd said had been agreed upon.

As a matter of fact, Steve De Bruile told me that he always forgot politely and promptly whatever he didn't want to remember, whatever he said he didn't hear. Even though he wrote it out and looked at it, so you knew he must have taken it in, he would forget it. It wouldn't be in the final letter as it came out, or the final arrangement as it came out. That was within the company.

I told myself afterwards that perhaps the mere fact that he told that he'd changed his mind was an unusual considerate circumstance on his part, in the light of what others in General Motors told me later. But, of course, at that time I didn't know as much about his personality. But he was certainly a frustrated and frightened personality. I have realized that ever since. My judgments of him are much softer, as I have reflected on this, than they were that night when I bawled him out. As I've reflected over what he is and what his personality is, what the problems and strains under which he lived all there years have been, I've realized