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were taken with a tele-photo lens and looked so terrible. The reporters reported that he must be sick because the train was slowed down and driven at a very slow rate through a strange country. There seemed to be no reason for it. If he wanted to go to San Francisco, that wasn't the way to go. He might have been going to Seattle. The reason for that was that he had fixed the route. He wanted to go through the part of the country between Chicago and Seattle, up and down several railroads, where he had gone campaigning with Cox in the Cox campaign. He wanted to go over that country and take a look at it after his administration. It had also been dust bowl country. The stories of suffering and so forth from that area had grieved him terribly. He had done a great deal, and made a great effort to get relief, assistance and everything possible for that country. He wanted to take a look at it and see if it looked prosperous, if crops were growing again, if the cattle were feeding, if the people were looking as though they had clothes to wear and plenty to eat, and if the towns looked all right. He wanted the train slowed down so he could see and he wanted to go through certain places in the daytime so that he could see. He didn't want to be buzzed through during the night. He wanted to see the area. It was an area he had never heard of until he went out campaigning in the Cox campaign.





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