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Perkins:

I don't remember. There was an ostensible reason, of course.

Interviewer:

I think that was the last Cabinet meeting, March 23.

Perkins:

I think he went to Warm Springs right away, after that.

Interviewer:

Do you remember anything about Roosevelt in those last three cabinet meetings? You've said to me before that you did not anticipate his death, even then.

Perkins:

Oh, no.

The episode that Wickard overheard (March 16, 1945) when he heard me warn Roosevelt about Hillman is interesting, The week before, or earlier in this week, I had been in New York and had made a point of seeing Hillman, who was, I knew, about to leave for the meeting of the organizing committee of the World Federation of Trade Unions, which was to be held in London. I was very anxious to see him and to talk with him about the project, and to find out what was in his mind, and how far he expected to go and how far he thought the Europeans would go along with him, and if possible to warn him away from his all-out attitude towards the organizing committee. Because I felt very uneasy about the World





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