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to come down and help him out. I don't recall whether I was the one who suggested that he ask Bruere or not. I imagine I was, or at least I was consulted about it, or perhaps the President may have just spontaneously thought of it. At any rate. I certainly mentioned Bruere to him three or four times as a man who was extraordinarily competent and skillful in matters of organization and administration in government situations. Also he was unusually skillful and successful in rediation between jealous and rival groups in group in government, or our but particularly in government. That was one of the great things he'd done.

By this time there had grown up in these money matters a great deal or jealousy, rivalry, pulling and hauling. No two groups saw alike. It sounds like the formation of NRA, and I suppose it was much the same thing. The President had asked different people for advice, had said that he wanted to solve the problem, and they'd promptly gone to work, each one thinking and gathering a group of people around him. They all thought that they were saving the country and saving the fiscal policy. Anyhow, there was great confusion.

Henry Bruere came down. Having a great passion for privacy and not standing out in front, he worked very quietly. I remember that he was one of the persons to whom McIntyre pointed out the private tunnel by which you can go