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I said, “Well, I've heard that he wants to stay on and I certainly will consider it.”

Harold said, “He's a very good man really, a very intelligent man. He was a very good newspaper man. I hope you can keep him on.”

Within a day or two Miss Winifred Mallon of the New York Times, whom I'd know for years, came in to see me. I thought she'd come to get an interview, but, no, she'd come on a personal matter. The matter was this. Mr. Clark was an old friend of hers. His wife was one of her best and oldest friends. They had been to school together. He really wanted very much to stay. He was a fine man. He was a very able newspaper man. He was a good publicity person. She felt that he'd be useful to me because he was a contact with the press, and so forth and so on.

I said, “He's a Republican, isn't he, Miss Mallon?”

“Yes, but you're not going to make a political situation out of this. I know you're not. He's really good man. I hope you'll keep him.”

I finally got a second call from Ickes a week later. Anyhow, I finally said, “I haven't anybody to take his place so I might as well let him stay.” So I called him in and said, “I understand you want to stay.”

He said, “Yes.”