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serving. He bought a house in Alexandria, one of the old houses. He lived there until he died. He was buried from that house.

On page 41 of my book, The Roosevelt I Knew, there's a mistake. The Democratic State Convention was held in Rochester and not at Syracuse. The name of the hotel I don't recall, but it's the old hotel there, and not the Hotel Eastman which is now the big hotel. The old hotel with the Indian name was the headquarters. I don't know why the research men that I paid to check me on dates, names, places, middle initials didn't catch this, but he didn't. Mistakes like that creep into your mind.

In my book I mention how Smith called Roosevelt in Warm Springs and told him he had to run for Governor and that it was his duty to run for Governor. Then he was nominated by the state convention by acclamation. In those big convention halls the minute the word comes that Roosevelt is all right it's whispered around from one delegate to another, one of the people on the platform to the other. The acclamation was just nothing at all. There was enthusiasm because it was the man Al wanted, as much as anything else. They liked Roosevelt. They remembered him from the San Francisco Convention. They remembered him from the Madison Square Garden Convention. These are the common Democrats now.





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