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who owe a lot to Roosevelt, who can't think of anything but Roosevelt. You mention politics or President to them and they think of Roosevelt. That feeling runs right straight through the whole party. Of course, although I picked the party machine myself, I picked them to be for Roosevelt, naturally. You know we had to reorganize the party machine. You know what I did to make Roosevelt President. You know that I worked up and down this country for two years before '32, how I lined up the delegates. Now the boss doesn't consult me at all. He knows I'm opposed to the third term and so he doesn't talk to me.”

For the first time I realized that Jim was sore, that he had it in him to be sore. He acted sore. He acted the way a man does when he's hurt and is sore.

So I had more or less taken for granted that Roosevelt would run for a third term, without anything ever being said about it after I began to observe that there were no important people's heads showing above the general melee of people who would be likely candidates for President. It never crossed my mind, until I heard it later, that Jim Farley had considered himself a candidate. I'm very sure that John Garner did not consider himself a candidate for the Presidency, although I know there





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