Now, of course I have to appoint human beings to office.

I want them to be honest and conscientious and desirous of performing public service, but I cannot find any men who quite come up to that standard and I doubt if there are any in existence.

Of course, we want to withdraw.

I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do not think they ought to make partisan politics out of appointments to the Cabinet.

That was the family Bible to which I referred the other day.

My grandfather was ill for a long time before he passed away and I used to read that chapter of the Bible to him when I was a small boy not more than four or five years old.

It will be opened at the first chapter of John, which happens to be the first chapter of the Bible that I can recall reading.

I shall take the oath of office tomorrow on a Bible that was given to me by my grandmother.

I don't know what the reason for that is.

And they don't come in themselves and say, 'I am dealing in farm produce.'

I have been going more particularly on my confidence in people that have made recommendations and not on my particular knowledge of the recommendations that have been made.

I am very glad to hand over to them the work of doing something for the farmer if they will do it, but they haven't been able to accomplish very much, and therefore I was hopeful that this farm conference recommendation would receive…

I don't know enough about the details of these bills to discuss the details with any intelligence.

But there does seem to be a very determined opposition on the part of those who act as distributors, not all of them, but quite a number of them, to any assistance being rendered the farmer.

We are not going to get any farm legislation without opposition, and the opposition will apparently come from the farmer when of course those with experience know very well that it originates with others.

They made some recommendations about legislation.

They seem to think that if the farmer is going to be helped that means they are going to be injured.

I don't think there would be anything in those recommendations that are likely to be harmful to the farmer.