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I mean, he made speeches about them.

Well, I got Arthur Altmeyer to help me with the Social Security, and I got Gerard Reilly to help me with the development of the Wage Hour Act. I don't remember who I got on the others. I got a number of people. Those two are the only ones I remember telling them, “You take this manuscript and read it. You know, twist it around. If this came before this, fix it.” Because in my way of dictating, I was very likely to put the cart before the horse, you see. You know how I do.

Gerry Reilly was a kind of a careful person who had been present. He had made most of the negotiations, not with the President, but with other groups. We'd handled the thing together. He straightened it out so that we got the things in the proper order, a correct statement of the thing. I left in all the juice and liveliness and so forth of a spontaneously dictated affair, and yet it got corrected.

Well, that was the way that was done. Then I got this great bulk together. It was enormous. I'd promised delivery on the first of May, and I was finally driving myself--it was a dreadful thing, you know. It was a dreadfully hard thing to do. To do it in that time! From the first of January to the first of May! January, February, March, April--four months! I was just running a terrible race with a sense of the wolves