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did ask him to come many weekends and Al did go up two or three times, but as I look at it now I see that those two or three times were too close together. A man of his experience should have known that weekends roll around awfully fast when you're being a Governor. It's a weekend now and before you catch your breath it's another weekend.

Smith didn't realize all this because he was so eager, because this was his state, and he loved it. He was its guardian and custodian. It's just the way a mother feels when her son marries a girl who doesn't really know how to cook, keep house, or anything else. It was that sort of a feeling. She's afraid that her beloved son will miss something that he likes and is accustomed to. In the best of intentions she goes too often to the house and enters too intimately into the direction of her affairs. I always felt that that was exactly what was happening to Al without his knowing it. The reading of Freud hadn't become popular in those days. He wouldn't have read it if it had and nobody would have pointed it out to him. Nobody would have read it enough to have pointed it out to him.

He was so anxious to have everything go right. He had such a sense of the tentative grip that Roosevelt had on the situation that he wanted to be sure that everything was done right. Also, Roosevelt's temper was a very different temper from his own. Roosevelt tended to postpone





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