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The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I

CHAPTER IV
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His Administration must fall in with it, guide it, further it.

The chief instruments are the Agricultural Department, the Bureau of Education, and the power of the President himself to bring about Rural Credit Societies and similar organized helps.

He quickly saw the difference between Demonstration Work by the Agricultural Department and the plan to vote large sums to agricultural colleges and to the states to build up schools.
"Who is the best man for Secretary of Agriculture ?" I ought to have known, but I didn't.

For who is?
"May I look about and answer your question later ?" "Yes, I will thank you." "I wish to find the very best men for my Cabinet, regardless of consequences.

I do not forget the party as an instrument of government, and I do not wish to do violence to it.


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