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give a dinner in honor of Mrs. Roosevelt in January, and I remember phoning to Stevenson in Chicago and a sking him if he wouldn't come to the dinner in honor of Mrs. Roosevelt here at 29 Beekman Place. We had a long conversation on a much more personal basis than we'd ever been on before and he said that he wished he could come but there was some problem about coming on that particular date, but actually he wanted to come because there were too few women in his life. Now, what he meant by that at that time nobody will ever know, including himself, but that was his mood at that particular moment.

Shortly after that he wrote me a letter asking me to go on a preliminary campaign trip to Arizona with him. There were a large number of people going and they would go on a plane, to a ranch, and to lower Arizona, and maybe to New Mexico, and then finally to Phoenix. He thought nothing of going with large numbers of people from place to place, like gypsies in a large plane, only they were campaigning.

Rather than on a train.

Rather than on a train and rather than just flying on an ordinary plane and arriving at a place and making a speech. This was a chartered plane, as I recall it, and the press was going, and others, and I could see that it would be full of confusion and something that I would particularly enjoy because I don't like massive groups of people meeting candidates and campaigning from