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There's been nobody like that since. He didn't say a great deal, but it was about our Founding Fathers and that kind of thing. It was wonderful. As a speech that was a very good speech.

The Senator did notice my applause. He said to me afterwards, when we took the same train away, “I want to compliment you on the applause you got this evening.”

I said, “Oh Senator, it's very nice of you to notice it.”

He said, “Ah was interested because ah was surprised at the kind of things you said. Ah guess that's what folks up heah like.”

I said, “I may not have the chance to say this to you again, but that's what the folks all over the United States like. I'm sure they do.”

He said, “You may be right. You may be right. Wouldn't have dared to make a speech like that once, but Ah guess you may be right.”

Pat Harrison was a humanitarian. So was Joseph T. Robinson. There are Southern Democrat leaders who I found in Washington. I never knew them before. They had this humanitarian impulse resting upon a philosophical consideration. I think nobody was more delighted than they were when they





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