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the stuff, getting more and more into it. Then I realized that I had to follow certain topics to their natural conclusion, and that I had to write up the history of three of his great operations as President in which I had assisted him, the whole Social Security program, and the limitation of hours and control of wages, and the National Labor Relations Act. Those things had to be written right. I mean, the must be in this book because this was about Roosevelt and this was what he was supposed to have done for his country.

So I broke those up, frankly, into those parts, and I got different people to correct my manuscript on those three subjects--that is, different people in the Government who had worked for me. For instance, Arthur Altmeyer went over the manuscript part of the Social Security Act, because he'd been here from the very beginning of our first appointment of the Committee on Economic Security, and theplanning and plotting that went on before that.

How about Wagner, Robert Wagner--did you get him to check any of it?

How would I get him to check it? What would he check? He doesn't know any more about it. If I'm wrong, he's doubly wrong. I mean, if what I remember isn't correct, he doesn't remember as correctly as I do. I wanted people who worked at it, you see. Wagner didn't work at these things.