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liberal circles.

Anyhow, we had him in and we conversed with him for a while, and then we asked the President what he thought about it, and he said, “I can't think of anybody I would rather have. I think Seth Richardson's just fine. I think he's a number one man. I think he's very good.”

So we appointed him, and then we proceeded to select a Committee. I guess we'd got the Committee largely selected before. I had to do a large part of the telephoning to get people. to do it, and it was one of the most difficult jobs that I never had to persuade the right kind of people to serve on that Board. They withdrew, and they didn't went to do it, and they found excuses. They hated to do it. But we got a very fine assemblage of people eventually.

We had two or three very good men from Boston. We had Henry Parkman, who is a lawyer. We had Hoag, a very fine fellow. We had Jackson, who was the very excellent lawyer--trust lawyer, to be sure, but a man of very great ability and experience--who was at that time the Head of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, and spent a great deal of time on the affairs of Harvard College, was with the President for two days a week going over matters. It's a very important function. He was very much trusted.