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but you must do it yourself.”
“Oh, I'd so much rather that Mr. So-and-so, the lawyer, would go.”
I said, “Well, you can take him with you. You can have him as an aide, but you must take the burden of it yourself.”
I tried to kick him under the table to say, “If you don't, Fleming will,” you know. Because Fleming began to agree with me: it must be a member of the Commission.
Well, I think I finally got Mr. Mitchell to understanding that Fleming would go if he didn't. But he was all ready to abandon it to somebody else, so's not to have to do it himself.
At any rate, he went over to the meeting, and he came back, and he sent for me to come to his office, and he closed the door.
He said, “Oh, my, this one's terrible! The information that the President has got is shocking.”
I said, “I don't believe this. There isn't anything to it. Who gave it to him?”
Then he told me these two men, Gus and Royale and there was another fellow there who seemed to be very well informed, from the Department of Justice. And they have certainly discovered that a number of people--I don't
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