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RELIFE: FEDERAL EMERGENCY RELIEF ADMINISTRATION; CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS; WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION

Within the next week of March 1933 we held another Cabinet meeting, of course, very early in the week. I think it was at that second one that the question of relief came up again. We might have had one on the Friday of the first week, but I don't remember. The first week was a pretty crowded week and nobody had his feet on the ground. Everybody was getting adjusted to his new duties and functions. Banking problems still occupied the major minds of the people in the back room, who, at this moment, I seem to recall as Moley, Tugwell, Adolph Berle, and half a dozen other “boys,” as they used to be called. They ran in and out. Tom Corcoran, I think, was there this early; anyway he was there pretty soon. There were a number of people who were sort of in back. I didn't get aware of them really in any concrete way, except that they were White House entourage helping out on various things, until considerably later.

At the second Cabinet meeting, although it had been





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