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she'd be a fool if she did. In the first place, what she has done for Al she has done as a free gift. She's been very important to him. I don't think she's a woman who wants power for its own sake. I don't think she wants to be in that kind of a relationship with you. She's got no personal friendship for you. She likes you. She's worked hard for you. She's worked in your campaign. She's devoted to Eleanor, whom she knows. I don't think she would like to do this job.”

“Well,” he said, “perhaps you're right. I don't know. Maybe that's the case.”

I had no idea of how important and how much dynamite there was in all this.

Then he said a funny thing to me. He said, “Right at this moment, as I am now, I know I can't be bossed around. I musn't allow myself to be pushed around, because I might get into the habit. It would be easy because I haven't got my full strength.” He said no more about that. It was just an observation made in passing.

Then he said, “There is one thing I wish you would do. I wish you'd talk to Mrs. Moskowitz. Don't tell her I've spoken to you at all. Don't mention it, but just talk to her and see what she thinks. See if she wants to do this. You think she wouldn't want to?”