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That was the way our interview ended and I went home. I went out to my husband the next day. I knew that my husband's view on the matter would be what I told him it was, because he was in no state of mind at that time to have an independent analysis of anything. He was quite ill at the time and quite disturbed. Nevertheless, the amenities between my husband and me were such that I would never dream of doing a thing that he hand't been informed of and consulted about in advance.

I think Roosevelt understood the things I proposed to him that night, and in some ways he didn't. I did try to make it very clear. I wrote in my book what Maynard Keynes said about him some years later when he had seen him and then came over to see me. This was quite a number of years later and he'd never met Maynard Keynes before. I said, “I'm glad you met the President. Did you have a good talk with him?”

Keynes, who by this time I had come to know quite well so that he felt at ease with me and friendly, said, “Oh yes, yes.” Then he paused and looked off the way Englishmen sometimes do before they mouth a sentence out. Then he said, “Somehow I had expected that he would be more literate.”