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little village would give four for Roosevelt. There were little tiny returns. Twenty-one was a lot of votes. We cheered when somebody gave his twenty-one votes. Little bits of remote places that didn't get to the wires quickly began to come in for Roosevelt.

By two o'clock he was building up quite a vote out there. People said, “Oh, it's nothing.” I think it was three or four o'clock in the morning when Farley, I guess Flynn, Frank Walker and some other people said, “Roosevelt is elected. It seems incredible, but he is.” Then they went back and figured and figured and figured. Mrs. Sara Roosevelt and I had a very private little celebration because the papers were already on the streets. The newspaper men had all gone, except for a couple of outpost men just hanging around to see what the final figures were - not that anybody figured they'd be favorable to Roosevelt, but they would change naturally during the night and they wanted the late editions to get the correct figures. There was very small rejoicing that we had and a very small celebration.

I remember saying to Mrs. Roosevelt, “Don't you want a glass of milk? I think you can always get a glass of milk at the Commodore Hotel.” There was nothing more serious than that to be had at that hour. We were all very happy and very pleased. She, of course, was ecstatic. I think