The plan which the President adopted was simple enough,—just what would be done in any business organization—without asking for any additional legislation for additional employees, but by simply taking from the body of the employees, officials of the United States, those men especially qualified by knowledge and experience to act as his agents, and then creating the machinery through which they could transmit his policy and plan of unified business to the general organization. It is the simplest thing in the world, and the only possible objection I have ever heard was urged the other day where it was said that the detail of Army and Navy Officers for this central work by the President might not result in giving him the benefit of absolute impartiality of judgment because of their former connection with the War and Navy departments. That nonsense! For instance, in my bank,—supposing I wanted to take a man from the Discount Department, from the Foreign Exchange Department, or the Real Estate Department,—what folly to say that I would be justly afraid that he would not be my loyal and faithful agent in the imposition of a plan for the interest of the institution as a whole because of his former connection with those departments of the bank. What folly to say that the President of the United States with all his power over personnel can not receive from men detailed for co-ordinating work the same loyalty as he would receive from men appointed from the outside to come into this complex machine. And I say now that the plan must stand or fall upon that proposition. Regarding Colonel Smither, the Chief Coordinator, or Commander Stanley, or any of these men who have been connected with the Army or Navy,—so far as this work is concerned, as agents for the President of the United States, they are as independent as if they had never been in the Army or Navy. If anybody thinks they are not, let us give him an example. We have not found anything but cooperation from the heads of these departments and the heads of these services because their personal interests lie parallel now with the unified plan of the government since the President of the United States to whom they are responsible, is behind that plan. If the President becomes indifferent,—if he loses his eyes, and ears and fingers in matters of routine business in the shape of the Chief Coordinators of the Boards,—if he lets them drift, immediately there will come the effort from you and everybody else to pull to pieces this coordinating machinery which alone is able to impose a unified plan upon the governmental business.