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Anyhow, it was never discussed in Cabinet meeting. Of course, the President knew about it and knew all the reasons. I never pressed Henry Wallace for any questions. However, it was generally understood that some of them were pretty radical. That was the first time that I ever heard that a lot of radical fellows got in there. Who they were I didn't know very clearly at the time. But I did know that Lee Pressman was among them. I had never seen Pressman, but I saw his name anong those who were purged. Jerome Frank also was among those who were purged. I had no reason to believe anything but good of Jerome Frank. I think I had seen him in New York. I didn't know him very well, but his reputation was excellent. I wouldn't have thought that anything could be very wrong about Jerome Frank. So I wasn't assuming that everybody who was let out was a Communist, or a bad actor, or dishonest, or anything else. But it was Henry Wallace's administrative judgment that they were not tolerable in this situation.

Within a few months of that purge there was a vacancy in the solicitorship of the Department of Labor. Wyzanski had been asked to go into the Solicitor General's office in the Department of Justice. Of course, a lawyer wants terribly to get into that end of the government's practice, and experience as Solicitor, or one of the assistant solicitors is one of the most longed-for