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in our hearts in the United States we really believe that the President can do no wrong, because they jumped on Dexter Keezer with one accord. It wasn't his fault at all. It was Hugh Johnson's fault, but he was presiding and they couldn't do him harm. So they ripped Keezer limb from limb, saying how foolish it all was, how wrong-headed he was, how his thinking was all off.

It was the worst afternoon I ever saw. It was a total flop as a rally. I don't remember now on what note it ended. I seem to remember getting away by four o'clock because I had other things to do, but anyhow it was a thing that never should have been. The General always rued the day he aver called that rally. I might have spoken to the President the next day, telling him what had happened at the and, but I don't think I intimated that Hugh had done him wrong by pulling that. After all, he was a grown man and he ought to have stopped it, although I knew he was in no position to. You don't realize what pressure a President works under. He thinks something's been settled. They hand him a speech and he thinks that's what they agreed to. While he was talking to you, he agreed with you and not with Johnson, but when he gets the speech he supposes that was what was understood. He's already in the first sentence of the bad paragraph before he catches onto what it is that's been





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