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I can make to recall to my memory what the important things said are.

At the close of the session Bruere would turn to me and say, “Commissioner Perkins, I wonder if you could sum up what's been said.” We never took a vote or agreed to do anything, but I would sum up the sense of this meeting. You have no idea how effective that is as a technique of clearing people's minds. So much has been said, sometimes very petty and trivial, about some small detail that the principal item which really was discussed has been lost sight of, even by those who are present in the room and have heard it.

I would sum up in a fifteen or twenty minute summary. I used to try to keep it to fifteen minutes and you could really bring out all the important things that had been suggested, their alternatives and the general opinion. I used to try to say, “I take it that it is the sense of this meeting (in the way the Quakers use that phrase) that first, serious steps should be taken for the relief of such unemployment as we have now in ‘such and such' types of activity, and second, that serious steps should be taken for the prevention of further and future unemployment and that for this the following subjects have been discussed and to a certain degree there is a meeting of minds that