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right along. I can't understand how that can be done, because I tend to pull it all to pieces. I correct and correct and correct till I'm almost crazy.

That's all I can think of to say about how I wrote that book. I was exhausted at the end of it, you know.

That brings us up to August, 1946. You went to Maine. When did you come down to the Civil Service Commission?

I was sworn in in October. I was sworn in towards the end of October, '46. The early part of October I was in Maine, and Fitzpatrick called me and then the President called me--I told you this.

So I went to the Civil Service Commission, and I specified that I couldn't take office that week. I think I knew the book was coming out, you see--I didn't want to be in office at the time. I postponed it until after the initial pangs of its being produced were over, and the initial reviews were read. Then I came down the first of October.

I was made very comfortable. Mr. Harry Mitchell was Chairman, and Arthur Flemming was a member. I saw the President. When I came away from the White House, he had told the Press. He told the Press that day that he had asked