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didn't do it. There was an enormous floor demonstration, fantastic and amazing enthusiasm, and tremendous enthusiasm from the galleries, manufactured by many people who evidently were really friends of his and also by people who had been sent in through this device, which I'm sure Mr. Butler had never counted on. It was a very, very warm and kind of spontaneous thing, really astonishing, when you consider how Stevenson's attitude was one of saying really nothing except that he was not a candidate but available, and finally, I think, on Monday afternoon on a broadcast he had made some slightly more, oh I don't know, encouraging statement about the fact that he would be a candidate or was interested in being one. It was so carefully worded that people by this time couldn't help but be very mystified by his situation.

Did Blair seem to be satisfied with his attitude?

No. After Blair found that he couldn't persuade him to come out for Kennedy, he really did the best he could for him, and Blair was not satisfied particularly with him but he didn't seem to be able to affect his attitude.

Then Mrs. Roosevelt talked and made a moving, moving address. She was wonderful. She got a great ovation. Finally, I was disgusted with the location that I found myself in--it was in the second balcony or gallery--and saw Jean Kintner and she invited me into the NBC officer, where Mr. Kintner, the Chairman or President of NBC, was holding forth with three television sets going continuously. Well, three television sets trained on what