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Norris, I think his name was--who would pass as an employer and who was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, but who had on the whole pretty liberal and decent ideas and was a very decent man. Well, he came along. Except for him we would have died that year.

There was a man named Shore, Charles Shore. He was all things to all men. He was in the publicity end of life, he wasn't in the production end. He was strictly publicity. You see, that's what you're in danger of getting when you leave it to the Chamber of Commerce to decide who they'll send. They get a man who is a member of the outfit, all right, and he may even have the title of fifth vice president.

Interviewer:

It's my impression that Truman's foreign delegate appointments right down the line were pretty low grade.

Perkins:

Well, I don't know anything about that, and I don't know whether Truman understood this or not. At any rate, this was strictly the job of the Secretary of Labor, to pick these men. It wasn't Truman's job. And these men were no friends of his. They were no friends of Truman's. Truman would never know them. He would sign their appointments, but he would never know who they were.

Interviewer:

Roosevelt always took it upon himself to find out





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