Part: 12         Session: 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536         Page 718719720721722723724725726727728729730731732733734735736737738739740741742 of 1143

on the 21st of June, 1940, and we took a short honeymoon on a yacht on Long Island Sound, after which we went to Philadelphia for the Republican National Convention, where Albert was a delegate from his district in Illinois. We stayed, I think, at the Barkley Hotel, and Albert was immediately telephone to by both Dewey and Taft who both wanted his support, because they realized that his personality was so powerful that in any delegation in which he sat he probably could sell them on whatever he decided he wanted at some point. He did go to see them both, and he did not make up his mind as to whom he was going to support. Wendell Willkie thought, of course, that because I was for him that I was sure to be able to deliver Albert. Well, I wasn't able to deliver Albert until the last minute, and he really delivered himself. He was always very skeptical about this idea about Willkie.

Such an unorthodox person.

Yes, he was terribly unorthodox. Well, you remember the great voluntary enthusiasm there was for him and the organization of the galleries for Willkie. Albert was not at all attracted by Dewey or Taft; he really didn't like Dewey at all. He felt that Dewey had been very unfair to him in something, in a legal matter, and he felt that Taft was too conservative. So, he made no commitment to either of them. Finally, as the Convention got going he saw there was going to be a deadlock, and the Illinois delegation was just about in the middle as the delegations were being called.