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were whispered around to somebody.

I'm kind of vague as to where we went. You only remember things at the time. When you're making political speeones, you don't remember one town from another very long. I remember that when the returns were coming in at election time, I would listen carefully to see how this town went, how that town went, because I was there. I would remember I was there and I would want to know how that place voted. You get a personal concern about it.

That is good campaigning. If we could do more of that, if the Democratic committees had more money to spend to send people out to the same places where they'd been before, and keep a contact, it would be wonderful. Mary Dewson tried very hard to do that in the Woman's Division later on in the Roosevelt administration. She tried to keep the same people going into the same areas. It was easier to build up an organization and a set of friends. India Edwards is doing that this year (1952). She's been working at it for over a year now. She calls her people that she sends out reporters, I think. They're not reporters. They're organizers and propagandists. She has a group of about ten or fifteen, and even may have built it up to twenty-five, very nice women who have gone out to special places. I





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