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If we'd gone on an expedition to investigate the English educational system, there would have been a reason for putting on the principal of a girls' private school, but I don't see where education comes into this.”
“Well,” he said, “that's right, but I think you might just as well do it. Baruch can raise rumpuses. He can put things in our paths. He's got lots of influence on the Congress still. We kind of need him to keep them in line. He helps out tremendously.” This was the first time I realized the political use that Baruch was to Roosevelt. “He helps out tremendously in keeping the more wild members of Congress, the Southern members of Congress, kind of down and kind of reconciled. This business of all these strikes, for instance - it's the Southern members who are all wrought up over that. They're more wrought up than the Northern Democrats are. Barney's a great help to us in keeping them in line, keeping them pacified, and keeping them from doing reckless things. So I don't think it'll do any harm to put her on. I don't know why Marion wants to go. I can't imagine why she wants to go, but she does and she's got Baruch on her side. It might please him. You take the credit for it, Frances. Call him back and tell him you've decided to do it so he'll know that you decided it. Don't tell him you called me, because
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