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  • for a job in August of 1946. I got here the week that Wilson Wyatt resigned as Administrator of the then Nat ional Hous ing Agency and the Truman housing pl;ogram bJ;'oke up under congressional attack. In some ways it's probably the most fortunate thing
  • about the mistakes, let's think of what he did. Usually you have a cycle, and a lot that Woodrow Wilson did was wiped out. But the great thing that you could say about Lyndon is that Lyndon institutionalized the New Deal as a plateau. As I say, he pulled
  • , until August 31, 1940. I think, up to that time, longer than any other man except Postmaster General [Albert Sidney] Burleson from Texas,who served during the entire period of President Wilson's administration. You see, I served about five or six
  • at that time I was working full-time on the price side. We had in at least part of that period, people like Charlie Wilson--from General Electric, not General Motors--and Lucius Clay in the Office of Defense Mobilization. There was a great deal of conflict