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They would have pre-organized that.

We also had very good audiences in Syracuse. I think I said the same thing about the Smith campaigns. There were a good many very good, active and intelligent Democrats who would get a thing organized.

I also went part of the time with the woman's caravan. That was not my dish of tea, really. I did better when I went into industrial communities where other people couldn't go. The business of calling on the ladies of the locality and getting them to come out was not my style. Somebody else did that better than I did, and certain women couldn't go to an industrial community and make a speech.

There were the usual New York speeches. The last week was always spent exclusively in New York City, Brooklyn, and Queens.

By this time we had learned to manage Roosevelt's campaign physically. During the first campaign we had to get him in side entrances, up back stairs, in fire escapes. By the second campaign there were many more people in the know, many more people who foresaw that you would have to prepare for and arrange for the Governor's appearance. The selection of halls had been more carefully thought out. You didn't select halls that were on the third story, climbing up fire escapes. You tried to select halls like





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