In Utica Mutual Insurance Co. v. Vincent, 375 F.2d 129 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 389 U.S. 839, 88 S.Ct. 63, 19 L.Ed.2d 102 (1967), Judge Friendly found that no Supreme Court decision "suggests that the decider must actually hear the witnesses or be furnished a report on their credibility; the thrust is quite the opposite."
In NLRB v. Quaker City Life Insurance Co., 319 F.2d 690 (4th Cir. 1963), we held that the secretary of the district manager of a national insurance company was a confidential employee and that "[i]t would be patently unfair to require the company to bargain with a union that contain[ed] such an employee."