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I suppose that not every member, but some of the members, of the Cabinet had contributed something to the idea of what should be discussed there. After the opening remarks of the President and the opening remarks by one of the Governors who had been designated as the person to thank the President for his invitation to come to the White House, the President began on the subject matter. Almost immediately the whole thing turned to a discussion of unemployment. They didn't discuss anything else that whole day. If anybody tried to get them off that line to discuss other problems of interstate cooperation, it came right back to unemployment. Some Governor from the rear would rise and say, “Well, now, in my state we had ‘so many’ cases of people coming from the outside,” and so on and so forth. They'd tell the whole story of how industry broke down in their state.

There was a real disposition to cooperate on the solution of unemployment and on the establishment of unemployment relief projects of one kind or another. They put themselves on record. I don't think by any vote or count of vote, but by the almost universal agreement of each one separately, that public works projects should be started by the federal government and that, so far as the states were able, they would cooperate. Of course, half the Governors would rise and say, “But we have already exceeded our debt