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mind seems to work that way. If you watch the really good speeches that you hear made - lectures about something, not exhortations to do something - you'll find that they all have those elements. The speaker opens in a very polite and courteous way telling what he's going to tell you, then tells it to you and then he sums up. Then you go home and tell your wife what he said because you can remember it as long as that.

So I don't think Roosevelt's mind was unusual in that respect. To me it was a great satisfaction to realize that that was the way to handle him - the way to handle his mind and memory. Therefore, he was educatable in lots of fields. He did like to be told the story. It was my observation that that was what attracted him to the problem.

For instance, I never tried to tell Herbert Hoover anything, but it would be my impression that he was interested in the technical problem and not in the story, because I think he was a sort of cold fish and he never developed enough of his human nature of affection and human relationships to think that the story mattered.

Roosevelt even liked fiction. You would tell him a story that wasn't true and he'd be interested in it. That was one of the ways in which he was so educatable. It was