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was not honest. His administration had been full of crookedness and crooks, but Johnson would always defend him against the idea that he himself had been dishonest.

He admired Baruch very much, since that name's been put forward to me, but he never spoke of him in terms of here worship. I don't know whether or not he admired Peek. I doubt it. There was jealousy between them. He always had a dig in for Peek, and Peek did for him. They were both Baruch's men. They lived by the smile of the master. If the master chose one of them to do something, then the other was jealous because he hadn't been chosen. Yet they always apparently cooperated and would proclaim themselves as friends But I think there was always a dirty dig waiting one for the other.

Of course, at that time Johnson was by way of admiring Franklin Roosevelt prodigiously with a real hero worship, but how much of that was real and how much that was expedient, I don't know.

I don't remember what other historical characters he spoke of admiringly. Of course, he was limited in his education, although he had read a good deal of history, which I suppose was mostly military history. At the moment I don't recall any other historical characters he was fond of. I recall Cromwell because that was something that interested me about him.