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You were offered the Secretaryship of the Treasury to replace
Douglas Dillon in '65, weren't you?
C:
That was discussed, yes.
B:
And you didn't take it.
C:
That is correct.
B:
Again, if it's not impertinent, may I ask why, sir?
C:
Well
- , and it happened that one
of them, a man by the name of Ganson Purcell, who was then chairman,
was I think I could say a fairly close friend of Justice [William O.]
Douglas, who as you know was one of the early chairmen of the SEC
and who was put on the Supreme