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of educational activity that exist, such as schools, colleges, universities, where they exist, and so on. I'll be hanged if I know what it was all over. A man from the University of Indiana came on to work it and that was to tell us if we were educating them for the proper jobs in life. We were not going to educate people the way they wanted to be educated any more. The Manpower Commission instead was going to tell them to turn out so many physicists, so many doctors, so many dentists, so many people with executive training.

That wasn't all McNutt. As soon as you got this Manpower Commission going it swelled immediately. As soon as it started it became enormous. All these projects were never carried out, of course. Enormous amounts of time were spent on things like this educational project. A good man from the University of Indiana was brought on to take charge of it. McNutt brought him on because he knew him.

I went with some regularity to the meetings of the commission. I rarely skipped one after it was started because I felt sure that it was going to approach disaster. It did. It pretty nearly killed two or three good men.

McNutt had been in the Federal Security Agency and he kept the same office. He took the Federal Security Agency right into the Manpower Commission with him. It was just a mess.

There is a man I meet once in a while, a professor





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