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The delegates are selected by the local organization. Although Hopkins had done many favors for many Democratic governors and had pulled many Democrats out of terrible holes in their own communities by his utilization of relief, I don't think he was political bigtime works at that time.

I've always thought that the President was honestly, if not enthusiastically, looking for a successor. He really meant to look for a successor. He really meant to find a successor. He really meant to develop somebody who would be a natural. Perhaps it wasn't in his nature to do it, so that he was working at cross-purposes with himself when he was trying to do it, but I think he always had his eye peeled. He would ask me and other people about new and promising people who showed their heads. For instance, “What do you know about Clarence Dykstra?” Dykstra had a great reputation at one time. He became President of the University of Wisconsin. He was interested in other people who would come up either politically or in the news. I think he was honestly looking for a possibility, but, as I said, I don't know whether he would ever have gone into it with enthusiasm, because he obviously did like being President. It was a full time occupation for all of





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