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been appointed to it. But there was no reason why, as Vice President, he was entitled to be head of it, and Jones certainly wanted it.

Then, of course, there was a lot of talk about queer people going into the B.E.W. There was a lot of talk about it, and I think some of them did get into it. There were a lot of reports made that, as you look at them now, seem to be unnecessary expenditure of money. Analyses of situations.

That had quieted down. But the minute they came back from the Convention, of course, it became obvious that the President had to find some honorable and suitable post for Henry Wallace. Now, this is what I know. I don't think Wallace spoke to me about it. I'm pretty sure he did not say anything to me along those lines, but I could see that it must be done. It wasn't fair to him. I mean, he'd behaved in perfect good faith, and he had not been nominated. And whether the President had indicated that somebody else should be nominated or not, or whether Hannegan had kind of misquoted the letter, I don't know, but at any rate, he had lost the nomination through no fault of his own and in some kind of slightly irregular way. At least that's the way it appeared.

Now, the President was loyal to him, and certainly didn't want to humiliate him. When we came back from the Convention, Wallace was quiet. He's a man of great self control, and whatever





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