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- 2 - In every contact I necessary action on any job that needed to be done. with had with wim, I came to respect Senator Hayden as one of the hardest work- on ing and ablest men in the Senate. s ARGHIVES "NATIONAL AND RECORDS SERVICE'* Burton Wheeler was chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee later/ when it was holding the failroad finance hearings, and I/asked him if it would be permissable for me to sit with him on these hearings. He said (was to/ that it certainly was, and I eventually became a menter of one of the sub- committees and finally vice chairman, in which capacity A conducted the hearings) Em I never would have been able to if it had not been for the subcommitted when Wheeler was abtential Astain this experience, for Wheeler. Vice President John Garner was always as kind to me as he could be. He was one of the best friends I had in the Senate. On the day that I had been sworn in as Senator, there had been twelve other freshman Senators from the Democratic side. The thirteen of us were always close together, and came to be known as the "Young Turks. The group included Lew Schwellenbach of Washington, who was later to become my Secretary of Labor, and Sherman Minton of Indiana, now a quotoce of the Suprese Court; anable Senator and all efficiented Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi was the only one of the original group member of the great Court.