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They wanted to know what I thought about. I, really having no opinion about it at all, joined with Mary and said, “I think you ought to. I think you've been invited and I don't see how you can refuse. I think you should do it.”

That's how Henderson got into the NRA. Of course, on the Consumers' Committee he dominated the situation right away. He was more aggressive than Mrs. Rumsey. He know more than Mrs. Rumsey. But he wasn't giving full time to it. He was only giving part time to it and was going back to New York all the time. Later on he cleared out from New York, but he then joined the management of the NRA and not the Consumers' Committee.

We came to the conclusion that evening that what she had to do was to employ an economist to be the economist of the Consumers' Committee and to study these economic problems. There was no way that just a bunch of good-hearted consumers could really tell whether the agreements of the code would have an adverse affect upon consumers or not. The labor people could tell whether the agreements of the code would have a bad affect upon them, or a good affect upon them. In general, it had a good affect upon them, because it did stabilize wages and working conditions at a time when they were very chaotic. But the question of how it would affect consumers was a very complicated question.