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I can't think who they were now. There was one man named George Somebody; he was in the State Department. He had grown very, very suspicious and slightly cracked about the subject. He was on this Committee, representing the Secretary of State, I think. He died not long ago.

At any rate, this was the kind of material that was put before the Committee. Then they began to move towards a solution. What are we going to do? All kinds of proposals were made--proposals for a proclimation by the President. There were proposals for legislation. There were proposals to define what were the boundaries of thought and adherence to an illegitimate cause that could be tolerated, and so forth.

Was there any indication that the President was or was not keeping his feet on the ground about it?

The impression that I got from Mr. Mitchell was that the President did not attend many of these meetings; that once he had launched the project, the Committee ran itself; that the President rarely met with them. But toward the end, when they began to fix up the proclamation for him, then of course he met with them, and he said “Yes” or “No” on certain things, and then they retired and did it over, and finally brought him the finished article which be announced.