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particularly fortunate that he could understand the spoken and written word, because he was not able to go and look-see for himself. We had taken Al Smith out to show him a canning factory with young children working in it, but we couldn't take Roosevelt out to do that, because he couldn't get there and couldn't get around a factory. Therefore, his ability to respond and take in the written and the spoken word, which was a very civilized ability, was really remarkable.

You had to give him written reports at times, but they didn't do the job. You had to tell him the report. If I wanted to give him a report, which would be my duty to give, I knew he wasn't going to read it and be interested in it and I always made something interesting out of the first few pages. Then I knew he would read that and would glance over the rest of it. But if it was important and he had to do something about it, I usually had to talk it, pointing out in the report that here on the first two pages was what I was then telling him, and here on the last two pages was what I thought ought to be done. I would have to point out that a certain passage was the technical argument, that, for instance, Professor Woolson thought this and that, that the underwriters believed so and so. He would accept the technical advice. He wanted me to identify it and tell him where I got the technical information and advice, but