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he is. He doesn't have to be in Washington in order to sign these appointments. I've fooled with it just long enough and he might as well make up his mind. There are no alternatives to Madden and Smith.

So we went aboard the train. I had the appointments all ready when we went into breakfast the next morning. After breakfast Jim, the President and I went into the observation part of the special car. By this time we were buzzing along across Massachusetts. They had arranged in some way to switch this special train from the New York, New Haven & Hartford tracks over to the Boston & Maine tracks. We came into some place at the outskirts of Cambridge so that we didn't have to got into Boston and drive out. We were in that part of Massachusetts when I said, “Now, Mr. President, I think you've got to make an appointment to the National Labor Relations Board. It's getting to be a scandal. It's getting to look as though we couldn't find anybody, which is the truth.

Jim said, “But look here. I though we'd promised that post to Joe Guffey.”

I said, “Madden is from Pennsylvania. Isn't that good enough for Guffey?”





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