Harold Rogers: “If the gentleman will yield, and I will close with this, the one compliment, the one way that Bill Natcher found to…”

“If the gentleman will yield, and I will close with this, the one compliment, the one way that Bill Natcher found to compliment you when you did something that he liked, he would say, ``You are going to turn out OK in my journal.'' You know, he kept a journal of the daily activities of his life. We are all anxious to read those notes. They are bound volumes now, stacks on end. And he described in those, we are told, in those journals, the everyday secrets of this place, not, I am sure, confidential matters, but things we will have long forgotten. And he would, he said, write comments in the journals at the end of the day about Members who did something that he liked or did not like. We are all anxious to see what will come out. But he always would almost threaten you with the journal. And we were all worried about doing something to cross him, for fear that he would write about us in his journal. But he would always, when you did something right, you knew you were complemented when Bill Natcher said, ``You are going to turn out OK in my journal.'' But I will just say this, my friend, in closing, that I think if we kept journals ourselves, and maybe we should, Bill Natcher would certainly turn out right in my journal.”