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fact that he wasn't the whole thing and wasn't doing it all, that there were other people doing it, other people involved, other people giving commitments. We had that same trouble with him in committee meetings. We would meet in a small, secret committee that wasn't supposed to be known doing some planning. With great agony we would get to agreement on some one point. Then Leon, though he didn't mean to run out, had a second thought that was better later and he forgot all about the fact that other people had gone away from that meeting expecting to do the first things.

We had some awfully bitter committee meetings. Eric Johnston was on that committee and I thought he was going to tear Henderson limb from limb. They had awful fights. And, of course, the labor people turned on him like nothing at all, but all these fights were later.

However, Henderson got the confidence of a great many people, and I must say he has mine to a very large extent. I would always be perfectly willing to ask Leon Henderson's economic analysis of a situation, realizing that what I would get would be a thoroughly honorable and honest analysis of it. How competent he is as an economist, I don't know. Other people who are economists themselves can judge that better than I can. I know that Alex Sachs never had any use for him at all. He thought he was just a mess as an