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I remember that during that breakfast I was called to the telephone two or three times. By this time the sparring had begun. There was opposition developing to Roosevelt from here or there.

The first night we were there Mayor Edward Kelly of Chicago gave a dinner. That was a correct thing to do. His city was the host to the Democratic Convention and he invited some people to a select dinner. You arrive at a convention and you find your mailbox or your bureau in your reserved room just loaded with invitations, little propaganda sheets from people who are interested inssome aspect of the platform, or in some particular candidate, but particularly with invitations. There's the greatest amount of inviting to parties, cocktail parties, tea parties, luncheons, dinners, after the convention parties. Among them was this very large, ornate, huge - you couldn't miss it it was so big - invitation from the mayor of the city. I instinctively realized that that was probably important and that it wasn't being issued to everybody. I telephoned around and found that that I must accept. I then reconciled my friends to the fact that they wouldn't be invited to that and could do as they pleased for that evening.





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