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fellow with high cheekbones and a big voice, and convictions on every known subject, and a considerable liberal. I mean, very definitely a western liberal. He believed in the human race, you know, and you've got to leave the human race alone more or less, and trust to the various accidents of life to convince them that this is a good way and that's a bad way. You've got to leave 'em alone. You can't restrict them. You can't box 'em up. That was his general view of life.

He gained considerable renown when he was asked to assist Owen Roberts in the Black Tom investigation and report--you remember? That was the blow-up of the munitions dump in the first World War. He was then young. It was a considerable period. He had gained great renown at that time for certain investigations that he had done. He had been around Washington all through the Hoover Administration, and whether he held office under Hoover or not, I can't remember. He may have. He certainly had under Coolidge.

Then, you remember, President Roosevelt had appointed him I guess Chairman (no, I guess that was Roberts again) of the Committee to investigate the Pearl Harbor situation, and he had gone out on that and had made a very intensive study and had looked into everything and had made the report that the President accepted. He had gained considerable renown by that. He was very well known in Republican circles, and he was very well known in