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which happened under the Truman Administration, by Judge Goldsboro?

Perkins:

I just know what I read in the papers. I had no association with it. I was out of the Government and I had no part of it at that time. I didn't see him--as a matter of fact, I met him very rarely since I left the Department of Labor. Oh, very rarely. Once or twice I'd meet him or see him in some large place. But I had a note from him about something. I can't think what. I guess it was about my book. At any rate, I've had an agreeable but very brief communication from him. I don't remember just what it was, but it was agreeable

Interviewer:

A man I know is sending some books to Nehru, and he chose yours as the best book on Roosevelt.

Perkins:

You don't mean it. I am honored. I wish my publishers would be pleased. They have sold the plates to my book to a publishing company out in Garden City, Doubleday, to be brought out in a cheap edition, and they have no more control over them. Everybody's telling them they ought to print a paper edition. I think it will have a sale, but they can't hurry them along. Doubleday says they think they know more about what the market will absorb than we do. I said, I think it will absorb an awful lot at a dollar a book.





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