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the end. The statesmen rung my hands and said, “That was a fine speech.”

We came down off the steps. Felix Frankfurter, who was in the audience, though I hadn't realized this, came rushing forward, grabbed me by both hands, kissed me and said, “Frances, you have invented a new political speech. This is the only new-fashioned political speech I've ever heard. I wouldn't have believed it. You have proved something that didn't appear to be true. You have proved that the people will respond to a series of propositions that are purely practical, that have nothing to do with political theory, have no ideology at all, no flag-waving. You didn't wave the flag once. Do you remember that?”

I said, “Well, in fifteen minutes I didn't have any time.”

He said, “The people responded the way they used to respond to the flag-waving, spread-eagle, bonbs-bursting-in-air kind of speech. That's a new idea in politics. That's wonderful. If Franklin Roosevelt can do those things, and I'm one of those who thinks he can, you've hit it.”

Well, I remember that speech because of Felix's reaction. I think it probably was my standard speech throughout that campaign, with variations depending on whether I was the first speaker or the last speaker, although not really