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me off on this public career. I'd never have been in any public enterprise in my life except for that.”

Well, he made a very good mayor of San Francisco and was appointed to a good many other things. He landed as the ECA administrator in Greece. He's done a very fine and very remarkable series of public services. I say all this because it illustrates the kind of a man Lapham was, the kind of a man Bridges could be, and it also illustrates what I think is a potential in American political life that has never been sufficiently evoked and exploited - that is, the fact that a right-handed man who isn't afraid of his fellow beings and isn't cheating at all can put himself before the public, state his views clearly and be respected tremendously, and trusted tremendously, whether he's agreed with or not. We ought to have more of that in political life. If we did, we'd be in a great deal better shape. I'd like to see a great many more Roger Laphams step forward and not be afraid of the world in telling what they know and what they think, whether it's popular or not.

The rumbles about Bridges continued. There were little flare-ups and littls strikes in that area. I spoke on the telephone frequently to San Francisco, as did the head of the conciliation service, who was by this