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done his chore. He'd launched the United Nations. He was going to make a State visit to England, to be friends and so forth. Then the War would soon be mopped up, and then he wanted to go to the Near East.

Interviewer:

Does anything else come through your mind as to his postwar planning?

Perkins:

No, I never heard any more about it. I think I never heard him say anything else about it.

It took it for granted, because he set up these committees to do postwar planning will the War was still on-- mean, the committees on the economy, the committees that Bynnes and Vinson chaired at various times. What we were supposed to do was plan about what would we do after the War to get the quick settlement of debts, and to bring the economy back to a normal condition.

And oh yes, there was the occasion when he made his speech, and said, “We look forward to a time when sixty million jobs--“ and so on.

Yes, that was Henry Wallace's idea, and we all tried to talk him out of saying that, and he said, “Oh, no, that sounds well.”

“Oh, but Mr. President, say fifty million. That's the most we can possibly hope for. Probably the most will be





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