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voted for Roosevelt, but every election he thought it out all over again. He was not an absolutely dedicated Roosevelt man who would close his eyes and walk through anything. He remained an alert, civilized man, evaluating everything. When there was a new election, he thought over all the problems. The fact that he always came out with the decision to vote for Roosevelt doesn't mean that he always would have, but he did, it so happens, for four successive times.

He wrote me the other day (1953), I'm now trying to think out the best way to make expiation for Jane's (his wife's) terrible error in voting for Eisenhower.” He voted Democratic. There was a moment at the beginning when he wavered, but I guess after the first three Eisenhower speeches he had no more doubts. The first three Eisenhower speeches settled the issue for him completely. He never could understand his wife's continuing admiration for Eisenhower.





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