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would feel. This is one of the things “that every woman knows” and no man ever does know apparently. The President was no exception, because he really had thought he was doing the right and kind thing. At least, neither Richberg nor myself ever spread the news as to how this thing had all happened and what the pressure had been.

I practically never saw Johnson after that. I saw Robbie occasionally. She stayed with Johnson when he left the NRA. She worked for him, took care of him. Mrs. Johnson very shortly went to pieces with a nervous breakdown. It may even have been before this that she had had that. Robbie took care of the General, looked after his affairs, and so on. He set up some kind of a consulting office. He wrote articles He wrote his book and that had some kind of a sale. She helped him with that. He stayed around in Washington. I think he lived at the Wardman Park a good deal of the time and had an office out there. I never heard anything from him directly but I did hear about him occasionally. I always heard from people that he was very resentful of me.

Richberg told me that he had cooked up an idea that Richberg and I had conspired to oust him, which was, of course, untrue. He built up in his own mind this theory that it all began over this National Labor Relations





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