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them in a lobby. Hotels nowadays have no private parlors. All the old amenities of a hotel have disappeard. There is nothing but great public lobbies. It used to be that in every decent hotel there would be two or three parlors, always a lady's parlor off the mezzanine or second floor which was relatively private and where a lady could receive guests. Also, I sometimes had to receive, and indeed it was proper that the Secretary of Labor should, a delegation from the Central Trades and Labor Body. So I did fully expect to see them. Those visits would be arranged through our office. I also expected to see, and perhaps have come to the room, some of the people from our office, from the immigration service, or from the public employment office, and so on.

Those were the people I would be seeing. I thought to myself, “Now, is there anything out of the way that H'm going to say, or that they're going to say to me? Is there anything that would be startling if found in the public press?” I decided no. I decided that there was no earthly reason why I should not do anything that I had proposed to do, or call off anybody that I had proposed to have come to call upon me. So I went through with the situation.