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When I was appointed Secretary of Labor, William Green, when the press asked him, “What do you think of the appointment? You told the President that you wanted someone from labor and he has appointed someone not from labor,” said, in a burst of verbose excitement, “Labor will never be reconciled to it.” He used the word “reconciled.” Now he didn't mean that. He didn't mean the word “reconcile.” He was kind of excited and it poured out of his mouth. They'd had plenty of non-labor men appointed in the past. Only William B. Wilson had ever been appointed from the ranks of labor. They had made the request to have a labor man appointed. I had recommended it to the president.

The reason he used such a strong word as “reconcile,” I know, was that deep, lower endocrine excitement and reflexes that come to any man then they hear that a woman has been elevated. He wouldn't have been so excited if it had been a man not from the ranks of labor. The excitement came out of the bewilderment that goes along with a woman being put in such a position. I realized that at the time