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I had said to Hugh Johnson, “The President will not say this and you mustn't urge him to. This is how he decided it.” Well, I never have known to this day how he wangled it, but somehow or other between that time and the next morning when the President spoke, Johnson got an insert into the speech. It was actually a typed insert. It was stapled onto the President's speech. He took out the proclamation of it - “I hereby proclaim” - because the President wouldn't stand for that, but he had written in a very broadened form of the economic argument and a strongly worded advice that the wages in every code be raised a certain percentage by unanimous action on that day.

When I accused Hugh of this later, he said, “Well, that's just exactly what you said. You said that he shouldn't order them to do it, but that he should invite them to do it.”

“Well, not as explicitly as that.”

Anyhow, the President made his speech. The President was enormously applauded when he came on, and the first part of the morning went very well. When he was introduced, they stood up and cheered. They were grateful to Roosevelt. He had started something. They had all taken part in it and they all really felt that the NRA had been a reasonable success - at least, it was a psychological success and they felt hopeful.