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a candidate does. We had gotten him there on that account. His family were there, sitting around the hall.

I seem to remember going and sitting down right in front of Wallace, rather deliberately, for two reasons - one, to hide him still further so that he wouldn't be seen, and, two, hoping that by just a word now and then, or a friendly nod now and then, I could take off some of the tension of the agony. It was a dreadful thing to go through, terrible. There were catcalls, hisses, all the more vulgar and outward manifestations of dislike and disapproval. It was really very, very horrid. I never lived through anything worse.

My memory is that Mrs. Roosevelt arrived in the midst of it. I wonder if I'm right about that. This had been going for sometime. She got into the airport about half past eight or nine at night. If I remember rightly, this happened in an evening session that had begun at about half past seven, or something. It was understood that he was to be put in nomination that evening and the attack began then. A full hour of agony had taken place, of catcalls, hissing, poundings of the chairman for order, denunciations here, there and everywhere.

My memory is that because of Mrs. Roosevelt's arrival at just that time the presiding officer, Jim,





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