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of political friendships, and so forth - a very nice person.

So all that was to the good. He certainly had a good reputation in Indiana. The people I visit in Indiana are Black Republicans, old, old friends of mine, or the wives are schoolgirl friends of mine. The families are all very Republican and they thought very well of Paul McNutt. They were not of his party and hadn't voted for him but they are good and intelligent people and they thought that he was doing very well indeed, that he had made a good Governor. He did something about the State finances, which I have forgotten in detail, but it was creditable. He had put modern accounting methods into operation and had brought in some outside accountants and financial advisers to straighten out certain tangles that grew out of ancient practices - some of them probably corrupt, and some of them just accidentally careless, so no one knew just where the State stood.

So, on the whole, his reputation was very good there. His reputation was very good in Bloomington too. He had been a professor in the law school there. So I think that he is a man of considerable ability. I always thought so. I thought he was misled by his





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