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high school buildings where there was an elevator in the rear that would bring the Governor to the platform.

Then, of course, he was Governor and he had control of the facilities of the state. He had state police. He had a state policeman assigned as a personal bodyguard. The state police were an enormous asset and great help in this campaign.

Roosevelt had also made a great many friends in the meantime. Both Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt had natural social habits. They'd been accustomed to having people come to see them, come to eat with them, come for a meal. So it was no problem for them to arrange dinner party after dinner party, to ask people to stay for lunch, to ask people who had come for a hearing to come to lunch at the executive mansion, and so forth. By doing that he had a great many friends who perhaps wouldn't have known him otherwise. He had asked people with great care from all over the state to come to dinner or to come to lunch. He had built a kind of personal acquaintanceship. All that, of course, paid off when you came to these campaigns because those were the people who helped.

I don't think it was clear to Smith that this campaign was building Roosevelt up for '32, nor do I think it was clear to most other people. It may have been clear to