One man alone was clearly inadequate to keep the government honest when it came to race. [Clark] Foreman, in consultation with Ickes, sought to deal with these obstacles in two ways. The answer to inhospitality to outsiders was to press for the appointment of a racial adviser within each agency and department. The solution to the problem of multiple jurisdictions was to bring these advisers, or other representatives of the various federal offices, together on a regular basis to examine the way in which the New Deal policies were affecting blacks.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "One man alone was clearly inadequate to keep the government honest when it came to race. [Clark] Foreman, in consultation with Ickes, sought to deal with these obstacles in two ways. The answer to inhospitality to outsiders was to press for the appointment of a racial adviser within each agency and department. The solution to the problem of multiple jurisdictions was to bring these advisers, or other representatives of the various federal offices, together on a regular basis to examine the way in which the New Deal policies were affecting blacks." in the context of "Clark Foreman to Harold L. Ickes (Dec. 13, 1933) Department of the Interior Papers, Record Group 48, Office Files of Harold L. Ickes, Box 9, National Archives, as quoted by Nancy Joan Weiss, Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR (1983)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.