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see the President rigged up one of these wartime fantasies of administration in order to give Byrnes a post high enough. It was a high enough sounding title, you see, to justify his leaving the Court.

Q:

Now remember, Miss Perkins, Byrnes was indeed acting in large capacities then.

Perkins:

Before this was formed?

Q:

No - from about December of 1942 right up to the beginning of 1945. In very great capacity. It was he who chopped off Wickard's head, you see

Perkins:

Oh yes. Well, he certainly was active.

Q:

And to get a Secretary of Agriculture, you have to have pretty big guns.

Perkins:

Oh he had great influence with Roosevelt. I'm note saying he didn't.

Q:

He had enormous influence with Roosevelt.

Perkins:

I mean, he had enormous influence, but - well, I wondered about it. I never had questioned the quality of it,





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