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difference between close political friends and close friends. In a great many political circles the two terms are identical. If a person is your close political friend, he's also your close friend. But in Roosevelt circles that was not so. You have close business friends. You have close political friends. You have close country club friends. But they're not close friends. That is, they don't come close to you in your personal life. You don't sit down and think out problems with them. You don't share a good deal of your personal life, your troubles, your rise and fall, your worries, your family life with everybody.

I don't know what it is, but I'm that sort myself. I limit my friends to very, very few people. It's perfectly comprehensible to me that I can be on the chummiest of terms with a lot of people whom I would never think of classifying as my friends, without the word “professional,” “political,” “business,” “school” friends, or something else. Some of my best school friends I'm devoted to, but as school friends. They don't enter into my idea of my life of friendship as an adult at all. Some of the people I count as close personal friends have nothing whatever in common with my political, or professional, or business, or intellectual life. One of my closest personal friends, whose death would really crush me, I often think of and say, “How is it possible that she