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Miller* become very close friends, too, since that time. He 

 called me up not so long ago and congratulated me 

 again? he said, "I'm getting old, but," he said, "the 

 most enjoyable day I ever spent in my life was in the 

 LaFollette committee when you were making a monkey 

 out of LaFollette. " [Laughing] This is what he 

 said to me, last December a year ago, a year ago for 

 Christmas he called me up. Yep. 



There's been no feeling that I know of out of 

 this; it's all been smoothed over, everything that 

 happened. 

 Did you use or need to use anybody to keep an eye on 



Baum: 



Miller: 



the pickers; could you have complete confidence the 



. 

 pickers would come to you? 



./ , lm9MH> 

 I had complete confidence in the pickers. I had no 



spies, no spies of any kind. I didn't operate that 



way. I had absolute confidence that when they raised 



their hand and pledged me that they would report to 



me that they meant what they said, and we operated 



on confidence with them. I'm very proud of the way 



that they behaved. We saw them practically every 



night downtown. They knew who I was. I didn't know 



