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July 29, 1913

My dear Dixon,

I do not think you know what is going
on down here. We are handling the force of
colored people who are now in the departments
in just any way in which they ought to be handled.
We are saying—and by degrees succeeding—a plan
of concentration which will put them all together
and will not in any one bureau mix the two races.
This change has already practically be effect-
ed in the bureau in which I proposed the appoint-
ment of Patterson.

It would not be right for me to look
at this matter in any other way than as the lead-
er of a great national party. I am trying to
handle these matters with the best judgment but
in the

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