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Both parts could be administered together, or they could be administered in separate agencies. Then he asked the Cabinet what they thought of it as a matter of policy and wisdom.

This was just an accident that the two titles could be administered separately. The reason the public works was put in Title II was because Lew Douglas didn't want it in at all. I don't think you can fragment any legislative enactment in that way. I'm pretty sure there was no intentional splitting of the administration in the way the NRA was drafted. They are two separate and distinct things, the President is the executive officer, and he determines how they shall be administered. I'm pretty sure there wasn't any deliberateness about this. These things were not thought out. The one thing that people must remember about that period is that we were improvising under a terrible pressure of poverty, distress, despair and being at the bottom of the heap. Nothing could be any worse than it was at that date in the spring of 1933. Therefore, whatever was done was done too quickly to think out all the implications. I'm pretty sure there was no deep-seated plan to make this this way, or that way. I know that.