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and I are such close friends? We don't think alike about anything - politics, business, profession.” She's a private friend. It's inexplicable, but I have the greatest trust in her and she in me. In all the most complicated and difficult aspects of our life we share and share alike. She's the first person I go to when I have a problem or an in trouble, and she to me. We share more secrets of the type of, “I wouldn't tell anybody but you.” It's true that she hasn't told anybody but me, and she won't tell anybody but me. She relies on me to act in her interest without being asked to. I'm the same with her. That's a friend. It hasn't any professional, or political, or anything else to it. It's just one of those things that happen.

I think Roosevelt was that sort. He had an awful lot of acquaintances, whom he called friends and who called him a friend, with whom he never had any intimate association. I honestly think, as I've thought about it more and more, that he was a peculiarly lonely person. He had an awful lot of people around him, but he had very few people to share anything with him - very few. He had quantities of political friends. He had quantitites of friends based on propinquity like Vincent Astor. He used to go off on Vincent's yacht and people would say, “Why does he go? Are they friends?” Sure they were friends. Even the newspaper reporters used