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Interviewer:

Pauley was up for something else and the Senate refused to confirm him, as I recall.

Perkins:

He was appointed to something else, later on, when Truman was President, and the Senate refused to confirm him.

Interviewer:

Then he dropped out of politics and hasn't been heard from since.

Perkins:

Yes, he has. He went to Russia as the head of a Reparations Commission. That was his quid-pro-quo. Anyhow, he was busy on it. It apparently satisfied him.

Now, Leo Crowley was quite an able man. Leo Crowley was a man of some standing. I don't know too much about him. He was always very agreeable. But again, he had come in without-- wasn't he in the Federal Reserve Bank? Of course, lots of people-get appointed to the Federal Reserve Bank, and why his political advice was asked, I don't know. But I don't think they had any great influence.

Interviewer:

Steelman's another newcomer.

Perkins:

Oh, he didn't have anything to do with Roosevelt. I'd like to tell you about John Steelman, another time. But he had no political influence whatever--no political standing whatever. No, no--never any. I don't know who else.





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