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Anyhow, Leiserson was only going to stay a brief time. He stayed the time he agreed to. He did certain things that were very useful and very good. When he left, he was replaced by a man whom the President selected, and to whom I agreed, named John M. Houston. He was a defeated, lame-duck Congressman. He'd been on the Labor Committee of the House and had been good, useful and interested. Reilly was quite enthusiastic about him because he thought he had political savvy and that he would be generally helpful, would see the political point of some of these moves and would not get the National Labor Relations Act into the bad graces of the Congressmen, or the community generally. To a certain extent he did keep that point of view.

I more or less lost track of the Board at this time. As constituted with Millis, Reilly and Houston, I felt they could go it alone without too much consultation. By this time I was very well loaded with other things which were bogging me down and bogging the Department of Labor down. So I didn't follow their cases, although I did see Millis and Reilly regularly. I never know what did happen in the final blow-ups when they got awfully mad at each other.





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