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the first campaign, that they never would nominate him again and that he couldn't possibly be considered as a serious candidate. The damage to the party was very great, worse than it is from the 1952 campaign, because in a good many of the southern and western states that could be counted on as Democratic states their whole Democratic organization went to pieces, ran out against the Democratic party and couldn't be relied on. It was the Democratic leaders in places like Ohio that broke down and cried because they were so sorry and felt so terribly frustrated that they couldn't support the Democratic party in this particular election. They were Democrats. They were Democratic leaders. They were in utter confusion. Some terrible and basic thing in their inner personalities made them feel that they must not support Smith. How honorable they were, I don't know, but their emotion was such that I felt that they were being honest withing their own personalities and in their own life.

I felt that nobody would ever consent to having Smith run again, and I felt that he ought not to try it. But he apparently had this bug deep and I have been told - this apparently is true - that it was people like Joseph Proskauer, Moskowitz and people like that who urged him to do it in spite of all, and utilized his trading powers in the convention