Mr. Franklin was one of the assistants in preparing speeches during the campaign, but I never had one private interview with him at all, on any subject.

We finally succeeded in getting the industry to expand, so that they are now making 3,600 million pounds of aluminum a year, and we are still short.

In my opinion I said General Marshall is the outstanding man of World War II.

I am thinking of the shortage of steel in civilian consumption, right now.

Because he is a good man, and a good administrator; and that is what we need in that position.

I think they are not expanding as much as they should.

It does not.

I did ask for it.

I said in nearly every instance, and in every paragraph.

No, I never had a private conference with him in his life.

I remember having a hearing, when I was chairman of a certain committee in the Senate, and I recall the Aluminum Company of North America informed me that 300 million pounds was all that the country or the world would use, as far as their…

I think that if you will read that section 8, that was a recommendation for a study of the situation, and if it was found that there was a shortage not only of steel but in other lines, the Government should prepare to make loans for the…

I made my position perfectly clear in the message, and the whole legislative end of the thing is with the Congress.

It has been customary all during the war--if you remember, the Defense Plant Corporation built $20 million worth of plants, most of them integrated with private industry plants.

I made it very clear in my message what I favor for tax purposes.

I have said it many a time--as an interpolation--that I think General Marshall is the outstanding man of that war period.

Tax matters must originate in the House of Representatives.

The message speaks for itself.