Set your trusted friends immediately to work, every man in the field he knows best, to prepare briefs for you on such great subjects and departments as the Currency, the Post Office, Conservation, Rural Credit, the Agricultural Department, which has the most direct power for good to the most people--to make our farmers as independent as Denmark's and to give our best country folk the dignity of the old-time English gentleman--this expert, independent information to compare with your own knowledge and with official reports.
3.

The President reads (or speaks) his Inaugural to the people.

Why not go back to the old custom of himself delivering his Messages to Congress?
Would that not restore a feeling of comradeship in responsibility and make the Legislative branch feel nearer to the Executive?
Every President of our time has sooner or later got away with Congress.
I cannot keep from saying what a new thrill of hope and tingle of expectancy I feel--as of a great event about to happen for our country and for the restoration of popular government; for you will keep your rudder true.
Most heartily yours, WALTER H.PAGE.
To Governor Wilson, Princeton, N.J.
Page was one of the first of Mr.Wilson's friends to discuss with the President-elect the new legislative programme.

The memorandum which he made of this interview shows how little any one, in 1912, appreciated the tremendous problems that Mr.Wilson would have to face.

Only domestic matters then seemed to have the slightest importance.
Especially significant is the fact that even at this early date, Page was chiefly impressed by Mr.Wilson's "loneliness." _Memorandum dated November 15, 1912_ To use the Government, especially the Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Education, to help actively in the restoration of country life--that's the great chance for Woodrow Wilson, ten days ago elected President.