In 1930, Paul Warburg wrote a massive book-1750 pages in all—entitled The Federal Reserve System, Its Origin and Growth. In this tome, he explained: "The results of the conference were entirely confidential. Even the fact there had been a meeting was not permitted to become public." Then, in a footnote he added: "Though eighteen years have since gone by, I do not feel free to give a description of this most interesting conference concerning which Senator Aldrich pledged all participants to secrecy."6
