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a good negotiator, who would like to be considered. She recommended him and asked me to consider him. I said I would be glad to. Who was it? She said his name was Lee Pressman. She went on to tell me where he was educated, what his ratings and ranks were when he was at Harvard Law.

I said, “Wasn't he over in the Agriculture Department?”

She said, “Yes.”

I said, “Wasn't ther some kind of a mess there? Wasn't he in that?”

She said, “There wasn't any mess really. There was something wrong. They couldn't exactly locate it. So the Secretary of Agriculture decided to reorganize it, put everybody out, and put a completely new reorganization in. This young man wasn't one of the important people in it, but he was let out along with all the others. Apparently, as near as I can make out, he had no part in anything that was questionable in the Secretary's mind.”

I said, “Certainly, I'll be very glad to see him, and whatever he was in Agriculture doesn't make any difference to me at the moment. I'll be glad to see him any-how.” I knew in my own mind that, if necessary, I could lock him up. That was no reason for not seeing him.

So he came over that afternoon. This, of course,