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In general, the people of the Cabinet were disposed toward the work relief program. I forget how the law read that finally put into effect the FERA. I've forgotten whether it required work relief or not, but my memory is that it permitted it in the judgment of the director or the President, whichever it might be. It offered the opportunity for work relief.

Lewis Douglas assented to that. It was at that time that I first realized that he was fundamentally very much opposed to a public works project. I only began to realize that on the day on which be said that he would agree to go along and not to oppose a relief work program, because it might be that it was as cheap a form of relief as anything else and it did not have the fallacies and the terrible impact upon the budget and upon the finances of the country that a public works program had. I sort of gathered from that that he would be opposed to a public works program.

I, of course, had continually kept a notation of the first Cabinet meetings, just on blocks of papers. They're somewhere, though I might have thrown them away. They were just penciled notes and not complete by any means. I did that partly to check myself. I know that I brought up the question of public works at a every Cabinet meeting. I made it a point to. I recruited as my allies, or made certain that