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like that. He wasn't too much concerned about administrative procedure and how a democracy works. He was also a man of action. He wanted to get it done, which is all Hugh wanted to do. He wanted to get it done. This was the easiest way to get it done. He conceived that people would obey if the President spoke. That was Hugh Johnson's idea. Of course, the people won't and anybody in his right mind ought to have known that people don't do that kind of thing.

At any rate, we had this back and forth for ten days. Hugh wrote a speech for the President to make. It was submitted to the President and sent over to me for correction. I corrected it and I took out totally this part in which the President appeared and told them that they were to raise the wages a certain percentage. I took out most of the economic argument, saying that I didn't think that the President was the person to make an economic argument. If you have an economic argument, use an economist for that, but let the President be the man who stands as the leader, representing all the people, appealing to their better natures and so forth and so on to consider the economic analysis, because they'd know it wasn't his and that he couldn't have stood up to it.

Well, the speech went back to the President and he okayed it the way I had done it. Of course, Hugh got a copy of it and Hugh wasn't satisfied. So Hugh went back.