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papers. As he said, “We don't have no unemployment down in my county. In North Carolina anybody who wants to work will work for me.” The idea of a dollar a day didn't seem to him anything terrible. That wasn't a failure to get a living wage. It was a peculiar situation that his own life experience had given him nothing of a sense of reality of this thing and yet he was able to understand the purpose of it and the fact that there was great suffering, even though he couldn't see it in his own particular county.

He couldn't answer the questions, but he was so tolerant and so helpful that he accepted my suggestion that we appoint Thomas H. Eliot, a young lawyer who worked for the Department of Labor, as a page. He was appointed as a page in the House of Representatives. As a page the could run to the floor with messages for Mr. Doughton. If Mr. Doughton said, “Sit down here a minute,” he could sit down on the steps beside his chair. He did. When the gentleman way over there would ask a question, Tom would hastily scribble the answer - he wrote a very clear hand - and hand it up to Mr. Doughton, who would put on his glasses and read it. It was perfect. I say this because Doughton was a case in point. He was what you would name as an old-fashioned Southern Democrat.

Pat Harrison was in exactly the same position on the