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They ask you where you're going for Thanksgiving. What business of theirs is it where you're going for Thanksgiving? There was a great intrusion by the press into private lives.
I must say to their credit at the question of my being married and yet using my maiden name, and all the questions that could go with that, never was raised. I'm sure that Mrs. Roosevelt explained the matter to some of the newspaper women and it spread that they were not to ask me where my husband was. And nobody ever did ask. They were very decent about that. They knew he was ill and they knew the nature of his illness apparently. They accepted the concept that was none of their business. Mrs. Roosevelt had spread the news that it was none of their business and not to be mentioned. So I never heard a word about this.
Now, of course, among these very people that I say were so brash, so fresh, and had such bad taste about what they ought to ask and what the people wanted to know, and among this group of men whom I thought were tinged with Marxian ideas, - where they got them I don't know, but their questioning would indicate that they wouldn't have thought of that if they hadn't been familiar with the Marxian dialectic - were men who have since become some of our most effective, intelligent and competent newspaper people whom I have great
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