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The other brother, Will, was an economist. He was then attached to the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. I may be wrong about that, but I think that's so. when I heard of him, the fact that I knew his brother made me well disposed toward this man. I thought he was certainly a gentleman, well-educated, a man of honor, and probably all right. I still think he was.

However, he proved to be a very stubborn person, completely logical, which is the great hazard of economists. it makes them hazardous as advisers for action to be too logical. He couldn't be diverted. He couldn't compromise with another point of view on even the smallest things. Whatever he recommended, the whole thing had to be done, rather than a part of it. If you said that you didn't have the money for the whole of it, well then you couldn't do any of it. If you thought that the other part of it was unnecessary, he thought it still was necessary. He would argue way into the night about why it was necessary. He proved to be extremely difficult to work with because of these stubborn and logical qualities, although he was a very good economist, I think.

In the first month or so, I only saw him second-hand. He came to the house a good deal and I heard the conversations, though I didn't have any responsibility for him. In that