NBC Monitor Radio.^[62]  He told me later that JFK sat on the corner of his desk in the Oval Office and listened to that tape and he heard Anslinger ranting and raving, and he and Bobby made up their minds he had to go.”^[63]

Whether the Commissioner retired or was pushed, he stepped down a few months later after nearly half a century in the service of his country.  It was a much different country from the one he had gone to work for in 1918, and some considerable measure of that change was due to the efforts of Harry J. Anslinger.