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high. A large part of it is repetitive. So someone helped him.

However, he read himself all the pertinent parts of it, clarified it in his own mind and made personal notes. I don't know whether those notes still exist or not, but I saw them. They were fountain pen notes, just the kind of thing you do to remind yourself as you read along of the sequence of events and of the aspects of the case that seem most significant to you, and the things that you need further explanation of. I saw those notes. Roosevelt may have had some typewritten sheets at the time of the hearing, but I know that he had those notes also. I saw them. He had some notes to which he glanced now and then, in his own handwriting, which were obviously the kind of thing you make as you read. You make notes of what you want to raise as questions, what points you think need clarification or proof. He had that case well in hand.

In much the same way he took that complicated economic material that came in as a result of that Governors' Conference on Unemployment - material which Paul Douglas, Henry Bruere and I had put together for him and which was very complicated really when you think of all the economic questions that it touched - and in really a few hours' work one evening he digested it so that he was able to make the final and closing