RECOVERY: Feet Nailed Down

"The President wants me to stay. He told me I could not get away from the NRA or the Administration. He wants me right here with my feet nailed down on the floor. Sure, I'm going to stay."

With a broad grin General Johnson was expressing his pleasure at the discovery that he was still wanted in Washington. He had just found it out, for he was emerging from his first White House conference with Franklin Roosevelt since they both returned from their vacations.

Good reason had the General for nursing doubts. For weeks...

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