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3.) I said that if the man at my elbow felt I was at my limit on the latter, I heartily disagreed with him.

4.) I said that if Whitey's remarks about kicks was intended to be an opening to ask for a raise April lst, I did so.

5.) I thanked Whitey for his encouragement and told him I appreciated it.

I had this business on my mind for some time. While I don't know who "the man at my elbow" is, I very strongly suspect it is Rudy Krape. And I had various thoughts which I could scarcely express to Whitey. I have had an intuitive feeling for years that Rudy is jealous of me and no matter how honest Rudy might try to be, if the above is true, his jealousy could not fail to influence his judgment. Why he should feel I lack leadership ability I don't know. I have handled bigger, more complicated jobs than he has and successfully. I have always felt that when it came to leadership, I was particularly well adapted - I know of no man in our Dept. who can get more out of the Designers or better cooperation from them than I can. People have always seemed to like to work for and with me, an important asset in leadership. To successfully coordinate and direct a job of the complexity of the New Haven 0361's certainly calls for more than a fair trait of leadership and executive ability. I simply cannot agree to this judgment. I am somewhat diffident but only with strangers - it soon wears off and that slight deficiency should [[?]]

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mandc: [[?]] cut small ice?