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appearance it was only a week or so before the resolution was tabled, when it was actually a month. That was because I had shot my bolt, I had done all I could do. I had to go about my business after that. After all, the Department had to be run.

Actually, of course, the Strecker case had not come down yet. It didn't come down from the Supreme Court until the following June. What I was being castigated for was my delay in the Bridges case, and the conspiracy to delay.

After I got back to the Department after the hearing everyone in the Department - that is, people like Shoemaker, Houghteling and so on - came in to find out what had happened. It was really profitless to discuss it by that time. It just made me nervous to discuss it. I had been keyed up to appearing, and after that we just had to wait. I did get a good many letters and telephone calls from people who saw the statement in the press. We gave the statement out to the press. I asked Hatton Sumners if I might do that, privately. He said, “Just don't say anything about it, and give it out. It'll be all right.” However, the statement is not interesting. It's a tight legal statement. It was meant to be such. After all, I was accused of a conspiracy. That was my