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of them got up and went out, which was the best they could do. We got through with our speeches all right. They had obviously come to break up the meeting, but they didn't do any more than that.

I don't recall the actual traveling schedule, but I assume that after our Atlanta speech we went back to New York to the headquarters. There were always other things to do too. You had your job to attend to and couldn't be away forever. A week or ten days was a long time.

There were conferences in the headquarters office about the results of various meetings, speakings and so forth, and who did what. Around headquarters nobody ever expresses any doubts as to the candidate's chances at all. That's not the place you hear doubts. Persons who express doubts about the candidate's success are regarded as traitors or pulling a long face. That's too discouraging for words. You dry up all the sources of enthusiasm if you say you're not going to win.

Naturally everybody in the campaign had their idea about how we could do better, but campaign headquarters are full of people who do believe, who are full of enthusiasm and who seek to stir up enthusiasm and faith in others and in each other. We encouraged each other to believe the best,





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