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he brought in counsel he did it to cloud the waters and throw in something else so that he could say, “My counsel advises me,” just the way the employers say, “Our lawyers advise us.” I knew that Lewis ordinarily didn't drag a counsel around with him. There was nothing in this situation that required a lawyer's advice. But of course the company had Mr. Brown there and three or four other local lawyers there. It was very much lawyer stuff on the company's part. So you couldn't blame the union for saying, “We want our lawyer. If you're going to do this by lawyers, we'll have our lawyer.”

But I was uneasy about Pressman's being there. In the first place, I kept saying to myself, “What has Pressman got to do with trade unionism anyhow? How does he get into this picture? What does he know about unions? Just exactly nothing. Who is he?” He's a bright boy from Brooklyn, a bright Jewish boy who went to Harvard Law Law School. He was brilliant. He achieved a good rank and was rated a very smart and able fellow. He came down to Washington and took a job in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. I paid very little attention to AAA. In fact, I knew almost nothing about it. I knew it existed. I didn't even know what their purposes were, how they were operating, or who was there, until Henry Wallace