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a strange expectation that something would happen, that something was going to be done, and it didn't matter what it was. Also, one must remember that thinking in America had gone very far in the line of quite drastic actions. If you read the newspapers, if you read the weekly periodicals, as well as the occasional books put out and the reviews of books on the subject of our economy, our method of government, our constitutional problems, you had been aware for a couple of years of a growing feeling all over the country - and my own experience in the campaign had led me to realize this - that the people were ready and would accept very drastic legislation. They would accept legislation that in Wocdrow Wilson's day would have seemed very drastic. They were willing to accept, and even were recommending, much more drastic controls by government over the economy than anybody in responsible public office would have thought of recommending, or dared to recommend. I had become aware of that.

You became aware of that from the questions asked you from the floor when you were making a speech - “Don't you think that the best thing we could do would be for the government to take over all the textile mills and operate them?” This would be in a New England audience where a good conservative fellow from a textile town thought that was the best thing to