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very good indeed and that he had great possibilities. I didn't know that Jim was lining people up. I thought it was just a casual remark asked of somebody riding down on the train from Albany to New York and had just passed through his head. I didn't think of its being a political question or a political line-up, or a commitment. It certainly put me into thinking about it.

I can't place the date of all this. It might even have been in the first term, but was probably not until after the second term, because it was the second term that indicated Roosevelt's considerable vote-getting capacity in the State of New York. The first time he just barely squeaked through when Smith had lost, but in the second term he had come through rather magnificently. He had a very good record. Everybody spoke very well of him. Practically all the papers, even the Republican papers that didn't support him for Governor, spoke very well of what this man had done and how he had done it. His growth and his ability to be on easy terms with politicians and on easy terms with the people generally - the common people you met at state fairs and things like that - was very great.

He also wasn't in as much pain and distress in the second campaign as he was in the first. He was much more