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supporter of Vice President Nixon, who was seeking election at that time. Nevertheless, about two or three weeks after the election, about three weeks after the election, I received a telephone call one day in my office from Pierre Salinger, whom I did not know. And he told me on the telephone that Senator Kennedy -- whom I knew slightly, because he was on the Foreign Relations Committee -- would like to come and see me that night.

And I said, that was very foolish. I am at his disposal, I will go see him.

He said, that is not what the Senator said. He wants to come to see you.

And I said, very good. I will be home all night.

So Senator Kennedy did show up at 9 o'clock. And he told me that he was very concerned about this loss of gold and the lack of confidence in the financial stability of the US and the world. And he wanted to rectify this. And nobody trusted him because the campaign had been made on the basis that he was going to disrupt everything, and didn't have anything about finances.

And so what he wanted was to appoint someone whom he thought would carry weight around the world, and yet who was sympathetic to his idea of keeping the economy moving. And he had read some speeches I had made at one time or another in my economic capacity with the State Department which

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