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proper administrative practice. This question of due process is an awfully important question when you get administrative law, when you get the Congress delegating authority to an administrative department to do something. The Court said that due process was not adequately safeguarded by the Triple-A's method of adopting regulations. They did hold a public hearing, but thereafter they did whatever they pleased, but didn't hold a hearing on the final code. As I've said, I was congratulating myself at that time with regard to the area in which we had to hold hearings.

So Biggs was Solicitor General at that time. I don't think Robert Jackson had anything to do with these plans being formulated in the Attorney General's mind. I don't think he was in the Department then. I have no recollection of consulting him at the time of the Schechter case, and it was natural that I would because I had known him a long time. I knew him in New York State. Although he was often an opponent of mine and had been the lawyer for the Associated Industries when I was Industrial Commissioner, I think I would have consulted him at the same time that I consulted Harold Stephens, John Dickinson of the Department of Commerce, John Burns, the general counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Blackwell Smith, the day after the





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