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that we were all to go on as we had gone on, and that whatever we had been about to do, or had agreed with Roosevelt to do, we should do. We shouldn't just sit back and do nothing because there was a new President. I said, “I take that as assurance that the programs I have in mind, I'll go ahead with. If I have a conference already called for week after next, I shall call them, they'll come in, and we shall see what happens.”

I advised Wickard to do much the same. Now, who else I talked with, I don't know.

Interviewer:

I just noticed here in my notes that the President's train left Washington on April 14, Saturday, at 10:00 P.M. The Cabinet members were in Car 6. You arrived at 7:00 A.M. at Hyde Park on Sunday the 15th. You stood at the garden for nearly an hour before the services began. From a contemporary diary. Anyhow, those times are right.

Perkins:

I don't think we got off the train at 7:00 o'clock.

Interviewer:

Well, arrived at 7:00.

Perkins:

We may have arrived at 7:00, but I don't think we got off then.

Interviewer:

Did you have any feeling about the Cabinet--





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