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What was the idea of getting us out here? He's not fit to do business. You know that, Frances. He couldn't do any business. I don't know whether he remembers anything, or whether he's just faking it.”

I said, “Well, we'd better not say anything about this. We'd just better not tell anybody about what we've seen here.”

It was days before Johnson got back to the office - days after that.

He introduced it without Johnson's approval, on February 21, 1935. It was passed on June 27, 1935 and signed by the President on July 5, 1935. Before it was introduced the Senator changed his mind about having it in the Department of Labor, but I won't go into that right now.1

For Miss Perkins' account of the National Labor Relations Board, see Book VII of her reminiscences.

At any rate, that ended Wagner's negotiations with General Johnson, but more and more the people inside the NRA were getting squeamish and frightened over Johnson's condition. They were loyal to the NRA, however. It was still that summer, either before or after this, that Nelson Slater asked Mary and me to come to dinner at his house one night. He then said to me on the telephone.