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right. They'll go. You know, I think I will do it.”

I said, “Be careful! Don't get too far out. I have yet to propose it to the President.”

Interviewer:

He didn't ask you if you'd talked to Lewis?

Perkins:

No, he never thought of it.

Interviewer:

What would you have said?

Perkins:

I would have told him the truth, but he didn't ask, and I didn't volunteer.

I said, “I'll see if I can get Lewis to come down. What time could you see him? I said. Tomorrow is Sunday. Could you see him tomorrow morning in your office? The Press won't be hanging around there then, at that time of day.”

He said, “Yes, I can see him tomorrow morning in my office, about half past nine.”

I said, “All right, I'll try and reach him. I think I know where I can get him.”

So then I telephoned back to Lewis and told him how the land lay, and proposed to him that he come down on the night train and that he go to the Department of the Interior.

He said, “Well, are you sure the Press won't be there?”

“I'm pretty sure they won't,” I said. And it proved true,





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