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acquaintance of mine in New York, a man of great probity and ability, and it shows the extent to which people felt they had to drop everything and come in those days, and how they would. He had just gotten his family out there and had promised to spend the whole summer with them, but when I put the situation to him and told him he was to take charge of compliance, he said he would come. So he came on.

He took charge of compliance in the NRA and did a beautiful job. I don't know what we would have done without him. He had a calming effect on Johnson and understood him perfectly. He had a legal mind, but he was also a practical man. Patent lawyers are engineer trained as well as legally trained so he had that sort of factual, organized approach to things and understood the industrial process very well. He was a good calm type of person.

So he had been in the NRA and had done very well. He had also been asked to write the final report of the NRA and to wind up the affairs of the NRA. He wrote the report beautifully, showing his capacity for getting work out of people, and good work.

So Davis had status. The President had met him and had heard about him - everybody had. They knew who Davis was. So I asked Davis to be the head of this commission and he said he would go.