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people, with another kind of people brought in, instead of things getting all in a rut with the same people over and over again. It was perfectly clear to me that people were not happy. Even though they were renominating Roosevelt, they were not happy about it.

Barkley also made a good speech for Roosevelt in an effort to soothe the hurt feelings. It was obvious that a lot of people's feelings were hurt. I thought then, and I've thought since - and I hated to think it because I liked Jim Farley - that Jim Farley was considerably responsible for the bad feeling. He had been going around the country a good deal in the previous six months. He was apparently pleased with the idea of being nominated himself, although in private talk with me he always belittled it and said, “Oh there's nothing to that.” However, I think he couldn't resist saying things to his friends in the political leadership of the Democratic Party all over the country such as he said to me - “You know, it's time we had a change. Roosevelt's got this idea too firmly fixed in his mind. There're lots of things that Roosevelt has done that I don't care for.” He said that until there had come to be a little feeling, not all over the country, but in some parts, that perhaps Roosevelt wasn't all that people thought he was, perhaps





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