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effectiveness of another part, because under this bill we have reserved to the executive board powers of modification, recognizing that the situation may change from month to month and period to period. All this is is a permision by Congress to do this, and to permit the setting aside of the anti-trust act.”

Public works had been put under Title II because it didn't need to have the anti-trust laws set aside. The reason that it was put in with this bill was a tactical one. Johnson, Tugwell and their group's conception was that the public works should be used as a kind of a reward to stimulate a particular industry - not to build a hospital because a hospital was needed, but to stimulate a particular industry at a particular time in a particular place. That should be utilized as a tool to stir it up, rather than just an expenditure of public moneys for an object which would of course stimulate industry, but not a particular industry. In other words, it was the corporate state notion of how you used these enterprises for the creating of a particular economy.

I remember that Charlie explained to him, “You don't have to commit yourself now as to whether you want it used that way or not. In attaching the public works program to this bill it is easier to get it through, without a long debate, but you can determine any kind of administration for it that you think best. You don't have to settle that now.