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he were the last lawyer in Washington. I don't want him around. He seems like a snake to me.”

She said, “That's right. He's fancy.” In New York we had used that word “fancy” in that conversation between ourselves to mean a person who was tinged with these extreme radical ideas and couldn't be relied on for either trustworthy or sensible conclusions, recommendations and actions

So that was one of the reasons I was wary of Pressman. Then I had watched his progress, watched what he had done in one place and another. I was very disturbed when the CIO took him on. They took him on as a legal adviser to John Lewis. I was quite disturbed about it, so much so that I spoke to Sidney Hillman once about it. I knew him well enough to speak confidentially. I said, “Lewis has taken on this fellow Pressman as counsel. Are you quite sure of him?”

He said, “Oh yes, he's all right.” I said, “Well, he was let out of Agriculture.” He said, “I know all the circumstances of his being let out of Agriculture and they were in no way discreditable to him, not at all. A lot of them were let out. There may have been somebody there who wasn't quite straight, but they let them all out because they couldn't find who it