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across to the Treasury, without having to leave the White House by the street and meet the press. So Henry Bruere went back and forth, saw the President every other day, gathered all these people around him, and started our to figure out a plan. He did very well indeed in blending their ideas, and their views, evaluating them, taking a little of this and a little of that.

I saw Bruere all the time. He told me from time to time that things were in an awful mess. He was responsible for telling me that people thought that when Roosevelt asked them to help out they were the exclusive people who were helping out. Henry never had any such notions. I guess Roosevelt told him that too many people had their fingers in this pie and that he couldn't make head or tail out of it.

Everybody, including the newspapers, began to speculate as to whether or not Henry Bruere would be Secretary of the Treasury. As soon as they were aware that a banker was in Washington, that was the speculation. He certainly did not have that in mind and was most unwilling to even contemplate it, although I at one time urged him to as I thought he would be good for the administration. But he had a notion of his own that it wasn't his dish of tea, that he'd come a cropper if he came in there, and perhaps he would have.