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The Brains Trust

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ALSO BY R.G. TUGWELL FDR: ARCHITECT OF AN ERA HOW THEY BECAME PRESIDENT

THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE PRESIDENCY

THE ART OF POLITICS THE DEMOCRATIC ROOSEVELT

A CHRONICLE OF JEOPARDY

THE PLACE OF PLANNING IN SOCIETY THE STRICKEN LAND THE BATTLE FOR DEMOCRACY THE INDUSTRIAL DISCIPLINE AND THE GOVERNMENTAL ARTS INDUSTRY'S COMING OF AGE

REDIRECTING EDUCATION

(Editor and co-author) AMERICAN ECONOMIC LIFE AND THE MEANS OF ITS IMPROVEMENT

(Editor and co-author) THE TREND OF ECONOMICS

(Editor and co-author)

THE BRAINS TRUST by h.G. Tugwell

The Viking Press

Copyright © 1968 by Rexford Guy Tugwell All rights reserved First published by The Viking Press, Inc. 625 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022

Published simultaneously in Canada by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited Library of Congress catalog card number: 68-16079 Printed in U.S.A. by the Vail-Ballou Press, Inc. Acknowledgment is made with thanks to Raymond

Moley for permission to quote from After Seven Years, Copyright 1939, © 1967 by Raymond Moley

To ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS, who has always been interested in brains, though not necessarily those written about in this book, and not necessarily, ever, with approval of their Operations

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Acknowledgment

When the manuscript of this book was substantially complete, it was read by Elliot Rosen, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. He had just finished helping Raymond Moley in the writing of The First New Deal, published in 1966, and was

thus familiar with the materials saved from the period of our service with Roosevelt. The subject matter of that book was not, like mine, the summer of 1932; it began, rather than ended, with the November election; but there was much in it of use to me. This note is my thanks for Professor Rosen’s co-operation. Acting for the publishers, Malcolm Cowley, an associate on The New Republic in still earlier days than are written about here, helped in preparing the book for publication. The effort he gave to it was much beyond any reasonable expectation. To him, too, my thanks.

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Contents

The Brains Trust: Members and Associates Xi

A Brief Chronology XV

Introduction X1X Part One: To the Nomination

I. Concerning the Name 3 II. Matriculation 12 Ill. First Night in Albany 21 IV. Terms of Reference 32

V. The Concert of Interests Al VI. The Roosevelt Drawing Room 51 VII. Conservation, at Least 61

VIII. Freshman Economics 73

IX. At April’s End 83

X. “Bold, Persistent Experimentation” 93

XI. Roosevelt and Hoover 106 AII. Echoes of Oglethorpe 118 XI. Special Assignment 128 XIV. What Manner of Man? 137

XV. Portents of the New Deal 150

XVI. Privy Counseling 163 XVII. I Lose One Argument 176 XVII. Almost Too Late 189 1X

{XIX. x Domestic } Contents Allotment 200 XX. The Month of the Politicians 211

XXI. Jim Farley’s Problem 223 XXII. At the Congress Hotel 234

XXUI. The Big Deal 250 Part Two: To the Election

XXIV. Heading into the Campaign 267

XXV. Candidate’s Reception 281 XAXVI. Talk with a Nominee 297

XXVII. Second Talk with a Nominee 312

XXVIII. Diversionary Tactics 323 XXIX. Garner and the Deep Blue Sea 335 XXX. The Bonus Marchers 348 XXXII. The Encirclement of Tammany Hall 360 XXXII. The Platform Again 372 XXXII.