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hands now - everybody is very angry and sore at Jimmy, and cursing the day that Seabury was born.”

Everybody was sore about it, and yet there was the record and it was pretty bad. Roosevelt said before the convention, “I'm not going to do a living thing about the Seabury report now. I'm not going to rock any boats. I'm not going to do anything now. If anybody asks what I'm doing, you can all say that I'm studying it. I'll study it hard. You mustn't act on these things without due consideration and a full knowledge of the report. It's a voluminous report. I've got to know it.”

That was the line he took. That was sometime before the convention. Shortly after the fourth of July, after the convention, again the question was raised, “What about the Seabury report, because there'll be noise about it?”

Roosevelt said, “I've told you I was going to study it, and I have studied it. It looks very bad. It's a bad case on Jimmy. I'd be glad to let him out easy if he could, or if he was willing to cooperate, but I think that since that's been tried” (I didn't know that it had been, but apparently some approaches had been made to Jimmy to see if he wanted to pull out at that moment) “I think the only thing I can do is to take the bull by the horns. I can't go through a national campaign acting as though I didn't know about this.