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Stevenson had already been asked by Democratic leaders all over the country to run for the nomination because they felt that the chances of beating Eisenhower were very poor, and everybody was agreed that Stevenson should make another try. However, immediately after Eisenhower's heart attack--do you remember what month that was in?

That was in August or September, wasn't it? It was while he was on vacation.

It must have been in the middle or late September because Stevenson had already agreed to run and leaders from all parts of the country had met with him early in September, just before Eisenhower's heart attack. The minute the heart attack too place Kefauver and Harriman and others got ideas about Presidential nominations for themselves, so this complicated the picture. And in November there were a number of them present at this dinner, making speeches.

Stevenson was, by all odds, the best speaker, and I remember driving to the rally at the stockyards with him and his sister, Mrs. Ives, and his brother-in-law-, Ernest Ives.

The next day he called me and asked me if I didn't want to go to church with him that morning, and I was absolutely startled at being invited to go to church with anybody because I hadn't been to Church in years myself, and I said no. So, then he asked me to eat lunch with him, I think the same day, and we all had lunch at a Chicago club: Barbara Ward, Marietta Tree and