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and to spend more money on public works was, from the point of view of one school of economy, the very wrong thing to do. To take money out of the taxpayers' pockets to spend on public buildings, from one economist's point of view is crazy. On the other hand, there were those who felt that the problem was a problem of human need and that public works were a form of employment, which, over the long run, over a period of a couple of years, would be infinitely stimulating to the total economy because of the demand it made on the materials market, as well as on the labor on the site. The labor on the site was always much less than the labor employed in the preparation and delivery of the materials to the site. Those of us who had followed that line of thought felt that it would be an expensive, but reviving technique. I still believe that. I think it was a good thing, and I think we were darn lucky to have done it.

I wish at this point, in 1953, they would lay aside their program for the big thruway, and lay it aside for what it was meant to be. It was mostly planned out while Roosevelt still lived. It's a national thruway. The New York part is being built now, and they're building other parts of it in other parts of the country. They're putting money and labor into it now, when it was intended to be the great reserve