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been exposed therefore to exceptionally heavy pressures and temptations. They found that there was no other evidences of graft. They made glowing representations about the heads of the State Fund, me and all the way down in the Department of Labor. This was not a dictated report, but their own idea.

It just shows how much more generously and humanly a committee like that operated than any committee today (1952) operates. Suspicion, vituperation and ill will has been sold somewhere. I don't know where you could get such a report today. They had as much confidence in me as I had in them. It was perfectly all right. They knew I handn't been shaking anybody down. They knew that I hadn't willingly assented to it. These things happen. A free lance crook operates at all times.

These two people who had been guilty of taking money were not really wicked, foul people. They were just weak people who hadn't known enough to say “No.” There had been undoubtedly an attempt to bribe them on the part of the window cleaner employers.

I cite all this to show the extent to which Roosevelt stood back of you. He didn't find anything embarrassing because you were called names.

I was often asked to stay the night at the Executive