1. Studebaker to Fechner, July 8, 1937, Director, Correspondence.

2. Roosevelt to Ickes, July 17, 1937, Roosevelt Papers, O.F. 268, Box 8.

3. Studebaker to Fechner, July 20, 1937, Director, Correspondence.

4. Advisory Council, Minutes, Aug. 4, 1937; Fechner to Studebaker, Aug. 12, 1937, Director, Correspondence.

5. Studebaker to Fechner, Aug. 29, 1937, Director, Correspondence

6. Maj. Fred W. Boschen to Fechner, Aug. 6, 1937, ibid.

7. Taylor to Fechner, Aug. 30, 1937, ibid.

8. Fechner to Technical Agencies, Sept. 14, 1937, ibid.

9. McKinney to Technical Agencies, Sept. 14, 1937, ibid.

10. Morrell and Wirth to Fechner, Dec. 30, 1937, C.R.M., No. 790, Training.

11. Taylor to Fechner, Jan. 25, 1938, ibid.

12. Education, Minutes, May 21, 1938.

13. Clifton to Fechner, May 15, 1938, Director, Correspondence.

14. Ibid.

15. Snyder to Persons, June 7, 1938, S.D., Education, Correspondence.

16. Records of the CCC: Report of the Special Committee on Education in the CCC, 1939, mimeographed copy in National Archives, p. 1.

17. Ibid., p. 14.

18. Ibid., pp. 63-73.

19. Ibid., pp. 185-186.

20. Ibid., p. 186.

21. Ibid.

22. Ibid., p. 14.

23. Records of the CCC: Selection Division, Study of the CCC by the American Youth Commission, 1939, unpaged mimeographed copy in National Archives.

24. Ibid.

25. Rufus Miles, Division of Selection, to Persons, June 20, 1939, S.D., Education Correspondence. Miles had been detailed to analyze the reports.

26. Education, Minutes, March 8, 1939.

27. Ibid., March 31, 1939.

28. Fechner to Adjutant General and Oxley, April 4, 1939, Director, Correspondence.

29. Education, Minutes, Aug. 14, 1939.

30. See chap. xi, below.

31. Report of Education Activities in Junior CCC Camps, Fiscal Year 1938-1939, mimeographed, S.D., Education Correspondence.

32. Report of the Director, 1940, pp. 7-8.

33. Roosevelt to Fechner, July 12, 1937, Roosevelt Papers, O.F. 268, Box 8.

34. Advisory Council, Minutes, Aug. 16 and 20, 1937.

35. Ibid.

36. Ibid., Sept. 13, 1937.

37. Edward Bethune to Snyder, July 15, 1937, Snyder to Bethune, Aug. 20, 1937, S.D., Policy.

38. Palmer Patterson, director, Arkansas State Employment Service, to Bethune, July 28, 1939, ibid.

39. Snyder to Bethune, Aug. 20, 1937, ibid.

40. Persons to Charles Ketchum, Jan. 27, 1939, ibid.

41. Dexter Perkins, p. 66.

42. Fechner to James Roosevelt, Nov. 24, 1937, Roosevelt Papers, O.F. 268, Box 9; New York Times, Dec. 5 and 18, 1937.

43. Fechner to McIntyre, Nov. 30, 1937, Roosevelt Papers, O.F. 268, Box 9; New York Times, Dec. 29, 1937.

44. Rosenman, ed., Papers, VII, 28.

45. New York Times, Jan. 11, 1938.

46. Ibid., Feb. 26, 1938.

47. Dexter Perkins, p. 66; John M. Blum, From the Morgenthau Diaries: Years of Crisis 1928-38 (Boston, 1959), pp. 380-451.

48. Blum, p. 425.

49. New York Times, April 15, 1938.

50. Ibid., March 24, 1938. It was not favored by the director of the Bureau of the Budget. See Bell to Roosevelt, March 25, 1938, Roosevelt Papers, O.F. 268, Box 10.

51. New York Times, April 11, 1938. One of the six recalcitrants was Rep. Taber of New York, "faithful to the last" in his opposition to the CCC.

52. Ibid., April 20, 1938.

53. Bell to McIntyre, Nov. 18, 1938, Roosevelt Papers, O.F. 268, Box 10.

54. C.R.M., No. 780(3), Liaison Officers.

55. Ibid.

56. Ickes to Fechner, March 24, 1938, Secretary of Interior, Records.

57. Oscar L. Chapman to Clifton A. Woodrum, March 4, 1938, ibid.

58. Reserve Officers on Duty to Roosevelt, May 27, 1937, Roosevelt Papers, O.F. 268—Misc., Box 19.

59. Col. Edward Watson to Roosevelt, May 29, 1937, ibid., O.F. 268, Box 8; New York Times, July 21, 1937.

60. Fechner to Roosevelt, Jan. 17, 1938, Fechner to Tyner, March 16, 1938, Roosevelt Papers, O.F. 268, Box 8.

61. Louis Johnson to James Roosevelt, March 21, 1938, ibid., Box 9.

62. Advisory Council, Minutes, Nov. 10, 1938.

63. Fechner to Roosevelt, June 6, 1938, in Nixon, II, 232.

64. Henry M. Kannee, assistant to McIntyre, memorandum for files, Sept. 28, 1938, in ibid., II, 256.

65. Advisory Council, Minutes, Nov. 10, 1938.

66. Rawick, pp. 95-99.

67. Fechner to Roosevelt, May 1, 1939, Roosevelt Papers, O.F. 268, Box 10.

68. Wallace to Roosevelt, July 11, 1939, ibid.

69. Ickes to Roosevelt, July 11, 1939, ibid.

70. Wirth to Ickes, May 22, 1939, Secretary of Interior, Records.

71. Roosevelt to James A. Farley, Sept. 15, 1939, Roosevelt Papers, O.F. 268, Box 10.

72. Harold D. Smith, director of the Bureau of the Budget, to Roosevelt, Nov. 20, 1939, ibid.

73. New York Times, Jan. 1, 1940.

74. Saalberg, p. 118. See also chap. xii, below.

75. Basil Rauch, The History of the New Deal 1933-38 (New York, 1944), pp. 313-314; Dexter Perkins, p. 63.

76. Rauch, pp. 313-314; New York Times, May 4, June 2, 1939.

77. New York Times, April 26, 1939.

78. Rosenman, ed., Papers, VIII, 263-265.

79. Fechner to Roosevelt, April 14, 1939; Nixon, II, 321.

80. Advisory Council, Minutes, May 1, 1939.

81. Ibid., May 26, 1939.

82. Ibid.

83. Ibid.

84. Ibid., Aug. 3, 1939.

85. Burns, p. 412. Donald B. Johnson, The Republican Party and Wendell Willkie (Urbana, Ill., 1960), p. 40, states that the majority of a group of newspaper editors polled in 1939 thought that McNutt would be the Democratic party's nominee.

86. Gen. Tyner to Smith, May 4, 1939, Roosevelt Papers, O.F. 268, Box 10.

87. Fechner to Roosevelt, May 5, 1939, ibid.

88. Rosenman, ed., Papers, VIII, 235.

89. Roosevelt to Secretary of War, June 3, 1939, Roosevelt Papers, O.F. 268, Box 10; unsigned memorandum, Jan. 6, 1940, ibid., Box 11.

90. Roosevelt to Secretary of War, June 5, 1939, ibid., Box 10.

91. Tyner to Smith, May 4, 1939, ibid.

92. Sen. Theodore Bilbo (Dem., Miss.) to Roosevelt, June 12, 1939, ibid.

93. Advisory Council, Minutes, Dec. 5, 1939. McNutt informed the council that the President had made the cut "himself, in his own hand writing."