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I have you. This matter has to do with the employment of veterans and that's all right, but what is she doing?”

Anyhow, she finally got a post that had to do with the re-employment of veterans in New York. I don't remember how she presented herself to Truman, but I know that she did as somebody who had charge of something very important, very secret, and so on. McIntyre was dead by this time. Steve Early was still there. “Pa” Watson was dead. Truman was in that interim period between April when the President died and the first of July which was the beginning of the new fiscal year. We in the Cabinet had all presented our resignations and he had asked us all to stay on for the present, which we understood to mean until the first of July, unless some other arrangement was made, unless he indicated earlier that he wanted a general change. So we were all around. Early was around, but had also presented his resignation, but like everybody else he was willing to stand by and help out the new President while he got himself organized.

It was in that period that Mrs. Rosenberg turned up and presented herself to President Truman. I remember that Early telephoned me about it. He said, “Does this Mrs. Rosenberg really rate this? Does she know anything?”

I said, “Now, Steve, I'm not going to tell you anything. I don't know. What she knows is what she knows. She'll have