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it was very simple for him to come to me to see me whenever he wanted to, or to call up. We did things very simply and there was never any ill will, really great cooperation, so far as he was able to give it.

Because of the general excitement around Washington it was extremely difficult to get going on any pattern of planning your own Department and your own activities. I had, I'm free to say, the feeling that, because of the very unfortunate situation in which I found the Department of Labor - badly organized, staffed with very incompetent people in many spots, with no adequate and no intelligent central supervision, and with a good many people who were not completely honest kicking around-the first thing I had to do was to bring some order out of chaos and get a working staff and working department that could both make the preliminary studies of anything that I proposed to do, and could also carry out what we proposed to do.

Also, I had a good many personal confusions, as I hadn't actually moved over to Washington. I had to move in those first few days, moving enough clothing and supplies, and finding a place to live - all that kind of thing. Having no wife is a great handicap to a public official. A wife finds a place to live for other people. I had to find a place to live for myself. If it hadn't been for