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This article ends with the phrase: "A superb phrase maker and popularizer, he had a major impact on Franklin D. Roosevelt. For example, FDR's talk of a nation "one-third ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed" used one of Catchings' expressions."

Although a number of books and articles were by by Foster and Catchings, almost certainly it was Foster, not Catchings, who actually wrote the bulk of the text and was the "superb phrase maker and popularizer". Catchings no doubt had intellectual input to the Foster-Catchings oeuvre, but basically he was Foster's patron. Catchings in the 20's was President of Goldman-Sachs, a very busy man. It was Catchings who set up the notorious Goldman-Sachs Investment Trusts, just prior to the stock market crash, and which were immortalized by John Kenneth Galbraith. In the period 1915-1917, Catchings was an assistant to Edward Stettinius, buying war materiel from American companies for the allied war effort. Catchings had a remarkable career. There is no need to attribute to him achievements which were not his.

98.212.142.32 (talk) 03:41, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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