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innocent or any such idea at that time. When I say he assumed that he would deal with the Governors, I think he did. One has to remember that he'd been the Governor of a state and the idea of the sovereign state and what the state could do was uppermost in his mind. He saw other states operating in the same way New York State operated. He assumed that the Governors would want to do their part and could do their part. He recognized that some states didn't have the resources, but it was at that point that the federal government would help them. The federal government was to be a coordinator among their efforts to relieve unemployment on a large scale. I'm pretty sure that he assumed that and that that was in his mind. Certainly it was in the notes that he had prepared for the meeting and in the conversations that he had with me previous to the meeting of the Governors it was certainly what he was doing.

He and I were talking about the possibility of this meeting of the Governors growing into a larger meeting for cooperation between the states by a covenant, with regard to certain labor practices, but that was for the far distant future. That wasn't supposed to be next month, or even this years, but to lay the basis for such a possibility. We worked it out another way later so far as labor legislation was concerned.