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What I really think is that he had almost sobered up and the excitement of the NRA, the pressures, and all that brought him to living on his nerve so that he began to drink a little, then a little more. Then on the days when most pressed and most on his nerves he would lose all sense of proportion and drink the final cup that was much too much and led to oblivion. At least, that's my analysis of it, because he would be in the office some days when he was drinking terribly, but then there came a point when both Pat, his son, and Robbie knew that he mustn't stay there any longer. He could do business when he had quite a lot of liquor in him - more than most people could stand. Whereas everybody who talked with him knew he was drunk, he wasn't so drunk that he couldn't do business. You felt perfectly all right about doing business with him. However, there were more and more of these vague periods. You didn't know whether he was understanding what you said or not. He wasn't reeling and he wasn't asleep, but you weren't sure whether he understood.

It was in one of those periods when you weren't sure that he understood, with everybody trying to make sure that he understood and trying to pin him down to something that he would accept as a proper action which we