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the idea of raising money for the foundation that Roosevelt asked Basil O'Connor, a personal friend and acquaintance, to take over the raising of money for Warm Springs. It was after Roosevelt was President before they raised any money for Warm Springs.

The way that Roosevelt got in with O'Connor in a law firm was that Roosevelt wasn't a very good lawyer. He had to crawl in anywhere he could. Langdon Marvin was a personal friend of Roosevelt's and in the firm with him. Langdon Marvin was a very good lawyer - excellent law firm. He has an excellent law firm, and he's a very good lawyer. He was an old, personal friend of Roosevelt's. I think Langdon is also Hudson Valley; anyhow he's Harvard of the same period and same club. They had known each other as boys, had gone to the same dancing parties. They were at Harvard together. Whether Langdon was Hudson River or not, I don't recall. It's his wife that I know best. She's State of Maine.

He's a very good lawyer. When Franklin came back from being sick he went into Langdon Marvin's firm. That was the firm in which Albert de Rhoode was. He was a great City Club man, but he's dead. Marvin's firm has changed several times. I knew de Rhoode. How I knew him, I've now for often, but he did some work for us in the Committee on Safety, as





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