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not their side. It was as simple as that. 

 You were subpoenaed before the LaFollette committee; 

 would you rather not have gone unless it had been 

 necessary, or were you glad to go and give your...? 

 I was glad to go, I enjoyed it very much. 

 Some of the farmers resisted going. 

 I enjoyed it very much, because I was clean on the 

 thing and I knew that I was, and I knew that I had 

 taken on important people like LaFollette before and 

 beat their brains out, like Harry Bridges in Crockett 

 one time. [Laughing] He's a shrewd one too, plenty 

 shrewd, and brother, I knocked his brains in, too. I 

 thought, Well, if I can lick Harry Bridges I can lick 

 LaFollette. So this was really one of the most enjoy- 

 able times of my life. I had the answers and the open 

 records. I documented everything; there was nothing 

 to hide. I had no skeletons in the closet. 

 I think Philip Bancroft was in that same hearing. 

 Yes, he was there too. 

 He wasn't in apricots. 



No, he was a farmer and he was of course heading up the 

 Associated Farmers. But Philip Bancroft and I have 



