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Anyway, I'm sure that he assumed that the Governors of the states would do it. The first time we ran into trouble with it was in the carrying out of the WPA project, and even of the NRA project - but particularly the WPA which created the greatest dissension. The people running the WPA project went to the Governors of the states directly and asked the Governors of the states to appoint people or select people for the state operations, for the operations in their state, of the WPA projects. It was at that point that we began to hear from the Senators who were wild - “What did we mean by asking Governor ‘So-and-So’ to do this? Didn't we know that Governor ‘So-and-So’ was ‘my bitter enemy’?” If you said innocently, “Well, he's a democrat,” that didn't make any difference. He was the wrong kind of a Democrat - “He tried his best to defeat me. He wants my job. He's going to try to run for Senator at the next electron and defeat me. My people do this and his people do it another way. You've thrown all the jobs, employment and prestige to the Governor.”

Of course, there were the situations where the Governor was a Republican. Quite a good many of them were Republicans and not of our party at all. In those cases you had not only the members of Congress who were Democrats on your neck, but also the Democratic state committees on your neck - “What