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I never learned any more about it. I didn't call the police to have them trace the wire. Why should I? You were up against - what was it Grover Cleveland said? - a situation, not a theory. They had done it. Presumably they thought they could find out something from my conversation, or the people that I saw, that they thought would be derogatory to the, Roosevelt administration, or that would be derogatory to me, derogatory to the whole program of the Labor Department. As I thought it over, I realized that they wouldn't, that I was going to do what was clearly my duty as a decretary of Labor while I was there. The things that we would talk about would be the legislation, the progress of the enforcement of the legislation, the problems of the immigration service, the state of mind of Mrs. Khan with regard to the club women of San Francisco. I received people in this room. I said to myself, “It won't do the program the least bit of harm.” By the program, I meant my program of labor legislation, which is all I cared about. I felt it wouldn't do it any harm, and it might even do it some good. If they published everything that was said there, it would only show that we really moant business, really cared, and really thought this was good legislation.