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informal and not awfully satisfactory.

According to Woodin we were a new administration and we couldn't rely on the old. He said, “We must take this action ourselves on our own responsibility, and not try to lay it onto somebody else. This is our responsibility and we have to take the action that we think we can do.” That was very encouraging. There was no quitting on the job in it. It was very honest and very good.

I haven't mentioned Jim Farley in this whole inaugural narrative. I suppose that's because I knew Jim well. I knew he was going to be Postmaster General. Jim took no part in these debates on high policy and high strategy. He was strictly a politician. I certainly don't recall him that evening having anything to say, except, “That's right. That's right. That's right,” By which he didn't mean that he gave intellectual assent to everything, but that it sounded all right to him. He didn't probably understand it any more than I did. He didn't understand the technique of the difficult part of the problem, but it was all right and he was going to give support.

I don't recall too much about him during those two days. He was around. I remember that. I remember seeing him plainly coming into St. John's Church and I remember thinking how handsome he looked. He looked extremely well