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against their potential murderers, among other things. Now I felt that this business of having everybody fingerprinted would just more easily lead the proposed murderer to his victim, and other people who wanted to do you in for one reason or another or make trouble for you. “Find your lost wife--” I once hid a woman who was hicing from her husband, who was deranged. She stayed in my apartment for weeks. She couldn't be found. He was hunting for her everywhere with all kinds of threats.
There's a lot of that kind of thing in the United States. You have to be careful at times of other people knowing who you are and where you are.
I remember we discussed it, and the President put up a good argument for it. He said, “Well, you know, among other things they say that every year there are a great many hundreds of deaths that occur. A body is found. There is no identification, and the individual is held a certain number of days, and then he's buried. Nobody knows who he is or where he came from.”
And I said, “Why should they? Why do they have to? If he has a family that really wants to know, they can nearly always find out if they make a sufficient record in the police department of what the man was like and what was known about him, if anything, at the lodging house where he
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