Transcript of Princeton Seminar Discussion, Rewrite, Reel I p. 13

Reel I--p. 13 July 2 al .though I did not have the same degree of conviction about it that some of my brothron Caliuntly did. But it was quite interesting, toe the meetings of the Commission after the election were rather different than before! There was another aspect of the Commissi on's work which showed the same sort of arthe tendency.m Very early in the game, the question game up as to whether in our investigations of the Executive Branch, we should go into the merits of legislation, and It was very onter duty clear to me that we should not do so, that what this Commission was set up to de was to mida in provament in the or as they stuod. balk about how you administenst the laws which were being administered by the government 9t to say make recommund alions on the substance of legistation. and/was not set cortain laws were not any good, because they involved the expendi- job, ture of a 1ot of money. That wasn t ourn cherge We had very sharp differences of opinion princy on that, some of which were never resolved. The whole question of government loan agencies, the Anthich of debate the agricultural policy, the power policy of the government, were entirely tangled up in went into then mallers. this business, and some of the Commission reports show there were strong dissents on that. mathes I think I dissented on half a dozen repor ts on the ground that they went into things which collabor ated ou were beyond our jurisdiction, gaying yhy, and Jim Rowe and I sort of split this, un. I took this and ended; in a concurring disaunt the legal view of it and dissented for that reason'/ and Jim was the fo llowwho went attached the Comin mir's on with the conourring opinion which said they were wrong anyway about thoir Kix criticism of the legislation. Now that brings me to the next division of the notes which I have here, which have to do with some attitudes of mine, some of the experiences which I had. Shall ARCHINES we go ahead with those now? The next thing that I was going to talk about is some of the matters that I carried in my head when I went back into the State Dep artment. The first one of those are attitudes of mine having to do with the relationship of the United States to its friends and to the rest of the world. In order to bring out some of that I have collected a few speeches which I shall now read and hope that they will not be boring, but there are some things here which are rather amusing. This is a speech which I made on Nov. 28,