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“We'll show 'em,” because just possibly you couldn't show them. It was a very serious thing. We were at the bottom of the depression. The financial system was wrecked, apparently. The people were in very great distress. Industry wasn't operating. The farm situation was almost beyond description. I had never known about the farm condition. It didn't penetrate into the New York mind, as it did when I got down to Washington. I began to find out about the farm situation. I had never known what was the proper price of wheat, hogs, and cotton. That hadn't been an element in my calculations in New York. I hadn't had to know about that. I didn't know the economics of farm products prices in the whole pattern of American life. I don't know how much Roosevelt knew really when you come right down to it, but he was very quick to learn. Certainly he knew more than I did, because, as a Presidential candidate, he'd had to think about it. He had to think about it, of course, a great deal during the interim period between election and inauguration.

Anyway, I had this emotional feeling of a complete change rather non-partisan in nature from the first two days' experiences, due partly to the circumstances, and second to the extreme expectation which was expressed by everyone whom you met. To be sure, they were Democrats or near-Democrats, but there was