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didn't strike a great many responsive chords.

As I sat there and listened to some of my own words and phrases and the ideas which Smith and all of us sitting in that room held very firmly as convictions, I realized as I heard it coming over the radio from Helena, Montana that it was not what the country was looking for at that moment. It had been said to me in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Kansas City, “I'm glad to have you tell me about Smith, but that awful whisky voice of his!” I had risen to the defense of it, but I didn't know what they meant. But when I heard it on the radio that night, I thought, “That's what that woman meant.” It sounded blurred. It sounded thick. I thought to myself, “This is terrible. It's too bad.” I realized what they meant by his accent, because I had just been where they'd noticed that accent and they'd called my attention to it. I remember sitting there thinking, “This speech was all right when it was written, in my view, but as I hear it tonight I see what the country means. I don't know whether we'll win or not.”

I remember Mrs. Moskowitz said, “That is wonderful.”

I remember saying, “Belle, I just don't think that will go in the country.”

She said, “You're quite mistaken, Frances. You're quite mistaken. This is what this country is longing for.”