Frances Perkins

Well, Mr. President, what are they going to do when they get to the woods?

Well, Mr. President, what are they going to do when they get to the woods?

Yes, I know. But what about the unemployed? Where are they?

Yes, I know. But what about the unemployed? Where are they?

Take those poor men off the bread lines and take them up to the Adirondacks and turn them loose?

Take those poor men off the bread lines and take them up to the Adirondacks and turn them loose?

Just because they're unemployed doesn't mean they are natural-born lumbermen. How are you going to recruit?

Just because they're unemployed doesn't mean they are natural-born lumbermen. How are you going to recruit?

Mr. President, you know as well as I do that the Department of Labor has no facilities for recruiting, selecting, and transporting these men.

Mr. President, you know as well as I do that the Department of Labor has no facilities for recruiting, selecting, and transporting these men.

As she later summarizes, It was characteristic of him that he conceived the project, boldly rushed it through, and happily left it to others to worry about the details.

As she later summarizes, It was characteristic of him that he conceived the project, boldly rushed it through, and happily left it to others to worry about the details.

So, ready as ever to support the president, Francis looks him in his bespectacled eyes and answers, Well, the Forest Service could tell us where work needs to be done, and perhaps the military could set up camps and provide the tents, cots, shoes, and blankets workers would need.

So, ready as ever to support the president, Francis looks him in his bespectacled eyes and answers, Well, the Forest Service could tell us where work needs to be done, and perhaps the military could set up camps and provide the tents, cots, shoes, and blankets workers would need.

I think you ought to speak to Ickis.

I think you ought to speak to Ickis.

You haven't told Hugh?

You haven't told Hugh?

Oh, Mr. President.

Oh, Mr. President.

We visited every green park in Washington that day, some of them many times, as I tried to reason with the general. Don't blow up, I pleaded. Don't pull out. And all he would say was, it's terrible, it's terrible.

We visited every green park in Washington that day, some of them many times, as I tried to reason with the general. Don't blow up, I pleaded. Don't pull out. And all he would say was, it's terrible, it's terrible.

He was, of course, merely showing gratitude that I had been his friend in an hour of need. What he really meant was that I was the best woman in the cabinet.

He was, of course, merely showing gratitude that I had been his friend in an hour of need. What he really meant was that I was the best woman in the cabinet.

Well, Mr. President, what are they going to do when they get to the woods?

Yes, I know. But what about the unemployed? Where are they?

Take those poor men off the bread lines and take them up to the Adirondacks and turn them loose?

Just because they're unemployed doesn't mean they are natural-born lumbermen. How are you going to recruit?

Mr. President, you know as well as I do that the Department of Labor has no facilities for recruiting, selecting, and transporting these men.

As she later summarizes, It was characteristic of him that he conceived the project, boldly rushed it through, and happily left it to others to worry about the details.

So, ready as ever to support the president, Francis looks him in his bespectacled eyes and answers, Well, the Forest Service could tell us where work needs to be done, and perhaps the military could set up camps and provide the tents, cots, shoes, and blankets workers would need.

I think you ought to speak to Ickis.

You haven't told Hugh?

Oh, Mr. President.

We visited every green park in Washington that day, some of them many times, as I tried to reason with the general. Don't blow up, I pleaded. Don't pull out. And all he would say was, it's terrible, it's terrible.

He was, of course, merely showing gratitude that I had been his friend in an hour of need. What he really meant was that I was the best woman in the cabinet.