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see. There were a lot of Southerners and I discovered the remainder of the Democratic party. It wasn't enough to say I was from New York to get me in. I finally found my way to the New York headquarters and there I found a few pals - a few people who knew me and I got in.

I don't remember too much about the convention of 1920 except the effort to get in, that it was as dull as dishwater, and the conviction of course that what you saw going on wasn't really what was going on, the conviction that things were taking place in committee hearings to which you were not invited. There was no reason why I should be. I was young, inconspicuous and not a tried and true Democrat, although I had recently enrolled.

I do remember - nobody who saw it will ever forget - how handsome Franklin Roosevelt was. He was very much in evidence out there. I knew him then. He was so good-looking out there, better looking than he used to be somehow. He was more limber, and I think more limber intellectually, more in touch with people, being political, but being very jolly about it. He'd put on a little weight since the days in Albany, which was becoming to him as he was very tall. He wasn't fat, but he was just kind of filled out, as they say. He had a more amiable expression on his face. He mixed with more people, more chatting with people, more