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secure on his legs, literally. He knew what he could do. His mind wasn't preoccupied with whether he could get across the floor or not, as it was at first. He had gotten two or three tall, strong men who could give him a hand, an elbow to lean on, and whom he trusted. He could lean on them physically for the more critical things.

He did a great deal of traveling in that second campaign. He went to all the state fairs. He went to a lot of upstate towns and small communities. We pretty well mapped out a plan of the Governor's speaking himself in areas where it would do the most good, where there were votes to be made or a possibility to get more votes. We also utilized the same machinery of campaigning that had been devised in the earlier Smith campaigns - putting a great deal of emphasis on independent committees, committees made up partly of people who were not complete Democrats, who wouldn't say that they were committed to the Democratic party no matter who they were nominated, and who would go on independent committees for Roosevelt, such as the Independent Businessman's Committee, the Independent Lawyer's Committee, The Women's Committee for Roosevelt.

The women were very good campaigners. In the Smith campaigns the people who made the best campaigners were the people who had experience in the woman's suffrage campaign, because they walked right into small communities and did just