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See if I can have a conference with first the Secretary of State and then the President . Now let me finish this report before the Attorney General arrives . '' Enoch 's conference with Secretary Fowler was inconclusive . The Secretary of State chose to take a humorous attitude toward what he termed the Secretary of the Interior 's midnight conference with bandits . Enoch laughed with him and then departed for his audience with the chief executive . The President listened soberly . When the report was finished , he scowled .