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That is nearly always the mark of a sensitive person because they feel so many things. I don't think he was nervous and overwrought in the sense that we usually mean that. He wasn't frantic about small things. He was very easy going about small things, but he really longed for more than man can usually get in this world in the way of spiritual satisfactions. I happen to know that he longed for God, among other things. Harry was one of the innumerable people who talked to me about their religious aspiration. I don't know why, but lots of people tell me about their religious aspirations without any embarrassment apparently. Harry more than once talked to me about it.

One of the things that attracted him to Roosevelt later on - much later on when he began to know Roosevelt, saw more of him and be with him more - was this complete and not very sophisticated, and certainly not very intellectually developed religious faith that Roosevelt had. He had the kind of religious faith that a child has. It was very simple, very regular, very uncomplicated. Harry noted that. Not everybody noted that. Not everybody saw it in Roosevelt. Not everybody felt it, but Harry did. He envied it, longed for it and one of the things that attracted him to Roosevelt was that he had





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