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a Quaker family? What's he doing to himself? He's violating his own personality somewhere.”

The things he did as Alien Property Custodian were most unlovely when you come to analyze them. And apparently when he was Attorney General his respect for his fellow human beings just dropped to nothing. The raids that he permitted on perfectly innocent people on the vaguest suspicions were so contrary to anything we'd ever heard of before. It was contrary to what was the general policy of this country and contrary to what was certainly the attitude of the Quaker bringing-up.

I remember being totally uninterested in him as a candidate, but I really don't know much about him.

William Gibbs McAdoo was the strong candidate out there. At that time I thought very, very well of McAdoo. McAdoo was an engineer. The Hudson tunnels used to be called the McAdoo tunnels. That of course was a great feat. It was a worthy thing. He had also an engineering mind at that time. At some time, and I think it was in the original group of people who formed the Committee on Safety, McAdoo was a member. At that time the McAdoo tunnels were the great wonder of the world. Here was a scientific engineering mind. He was not in politics, as I recall it, particularly. Nobody had ever thought of him in politics. I'm very sure he was a member of the original