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as that veterans must have a preference. There was always a fear of a lot of people from out of state being brought in to work on a local project. Persons with families had to have a preference, and so forth. So it was quite a complicated thing. You couldn't put a man on just because he turned up. He must be unemployed, must have a family, must reside locally, and if a veteran must go to the head of the list. So they were recruited through these public employment offices.

We had a huge one of these offices in Atlanta. We had a very good man at the head of that office, whose name I've now forgotten. He's now gone back to private business. He was an unemployed business man who was just down on his luck, very much like Harry Truman in Missouri who we also had working for us as the Head of the Missouri emergency employment office.

So my invitation was mixed. I don't remember now who issued it, probably some kind of a committee interested in good works. I wasn't going to go unless we had the thorough cooperation of the Governor, the political leaders and the labor unions. When I made a speech, I didn't necessarily clear it with the local elected officials and party officials, but when I went into any state, I never failed to call upon the Governor, and to write to the Governor of the state in advance that I was coming. Having