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this, he had given me a good line of thought about administrative law. I'd also read on it. I had studied the purely legal conceptions of administrative law - what are the limits, what is required for due process of law, for instance? I had gotten into my system the idea that if you are going to operate under administrative law, it's very important in a complicated society such as ours that you do it with due process of law. The administrative body must exercise the greatest care to have due process of law at every point. You must follow the patterns that have been laid out by the common law and the statutory law in a simpler day when you didn't have any administrative law.

I read a number of books on the subject. In the Wickersham Report, which was made just toward the end of the Hoover administration, there's a great deal of extraordinarily useful and right-minded comment on the whole problem of what is required under administrative law. I had read that with great profit and had thought a great deal about it, so much so that Mr. Wickersham asked me to make an address to the American Law Institute when they met in Washington in 1934 on administrative Law. I didn't realize at the time what an important invitation it was, but I did it.

I was deeply imbued, therefore, with the importance that whatever we did we must do under lawful process. I