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he caught on to their ideas so quickly. He knew all about babies being born in the tenements and the mothers having no care. He knew all about that. He knew what happened. He knew all about the women who died and got sick because they didn't have proper attention. He'd seen them. He'd lived in the tenements. He knew all about the infant death rate. He knew that it should be prevented. He caught onto it so quickly and was so enthusiastic over the idea that something ought to be done. Then he was so witty. He would say such funny things, such gay things. He jollied them in the most natural way. He jollied them the way their brothers jollied them about things - the most natural kind of a man.

I cite this, although it's not chronologically correct, because all sorts of people during this first term were coming to see him about one thing and another. He gained a great support and a great friendship among the most unrelated kind of people.

The relationship between Church and State wasn't heard of then. Somebody invented that about a year ago. It makes me sick. It's so ridiculous. Nobody ever heard of such a thing. Nobody was interested in that. There wasn't any relation. There never has been any relation. It wasn't discussed because there wasn't anything to discuss, any more





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