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nothing I had any views upon or anything to contribute, because it was nothing I knew anything about.

It was the first gesture to get a coordinated Cabinet backing for what the President knew had to be done. It was to explain it to the so that the would know how it was to be done and on what legal grounds it rested. I should say that a number of the members of the new Cabinet who were just sworn in probably expressed themselves, always approvingly and not very critically. But certainly I didn't say anything.

That was, I think, the only thing we took up, because that was the overwhelming problem. I do remember bringing up the question of the Governors' conference which was to be held in the week. The president spoke about that and said that he wanted to put before the Governors the desirability of certain types of legislation in their states and that he wanted to evoke the cooperation of the states. This is very interesting, in a way, because at the end of his administration he was a cused of having violated all the tae's rights that anybody ever heard of. At the beginning of his administration he made a concrete, conscientious and considered gesture to invite the fullest exchange of views between the federal government and the states, the fullest cooperation of the state Governors and the state governments with anything that the federal government did. Se did a good deal in his own mind, and in theirs, I thought - or at least he intended to