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Of course, alliances were made then between the federal government and the Governors which were hard to shake off later. Governors got the idea that they were important people and that the federal government would deal direct with them. The created a few months later terrible problems. I was introduced for the first time to the idea that Governors and Senators from the same state not only do not see eye to eye, but are frequently bitter enemies, even though they belong to the same party. If they belong to the same party, they'll very likely be representatives of different factions. This all came to light, or at least came to demonstration, when we began to set up our WPA projects, because the President had practically promised the Governors, or at least he has assumed that the Governors, within their states, would assist in the operation of the program and the people that the Governors appointed would undertake certain responsibilities, and so forth and so on. This was the assumption that grew out of that meeting.

The New Deal never intended to take a direction where things were controlled from Washington, and certainly Roosevelt didn't. I know I didn't. I don't think that many of the people in the Cabinet had any such notion that this was going to be an increase of federal control, federal authority and federal power. I am sure that Roosevelt was completely