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bright eyes. That was the first thing you noticed about him - his eyes sparkled the way some animals' eyes do. It was like a mink. He was very shrewd, very bright. He was not very literate in his conversation. I don't mean to say by that that he was vulgar either, but his conversation had almost nothing in it except the practical things of every day. His standards of intellectual significance obviously came from reading the newspapers, and that was about all. I had the feeling that his reading was extremely limited, and that his education was probably quite limited. For all I know he was a graduate of Notre Dame. I don't even know. But he gave the impression of not being very well-educated. He was darn bright without being awfully intelligent. He was driving. He was always going right to the point.

He was an awful crank to deal with, using it in the New England sense - not meaning an eccentric with something to promote. When we say “cranky” in New England, we mean fussy and complaining and hard to get along with. Cantankerous is really nearer to it. He was fussy and he fussed about little things. In campaign expenditures he would fuss about the most trifling things. “Why did ‘So-and-so' go twice to Albany? Why didn't he do it all in one trip?” The total expenditure for the whole matter would be under twenty-five