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We heard that we were followed around by the Ku Klux Klan. In Independence, Missouri - and I don't think Irene was on that trip - I got tomatoes and eggs thrown at me. That was where I met Harry Truman. That wasn't on this same trip. Irene and I went to two towns in North Carolina. Then we went to Atlanta and some place in Alabama. There was great prejudice in Atlanta and the Klan was strong there. We were told that the Klan was everywhere and for God's sake to be careful. We were followed around by the Klan. Again, I'm very sure that we did the same thing in Atlanta that we had done in Greenville - walk right up to the problem of Al Smith's religion. There was no sense in trying to deny that he was a Roman Catholic. He was. We then pointed out that he was one of these Roman Catholics who knew where the church's influence begins and where its rights begin and end. Those rights are wholly in the field of religion. We said he was an independent and proved it by this and that, what he did about the orphan asylums, and so forth. Not only did Mitchel make the city orphan asylums clean up, but Smith made the state institutions that were in the hands of the Roman catholic church clean up, put modern methods into operation and so forth and so on. He was very insistent upon it. He required guarantees of what they would do before he would let them have the privilege of