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planet unless on a vast scale the Western World faced the issues of birth control/ and planned parenthood and encouraged the wide dissemination of contraceptives, especially pills, which were just then becoming a possibility. No one in his camp ever approached me. I'm sure that although I had met the Shrivers at Libertyville with Bill Blair and Stevenson in '57, that Bill Blair told Shriver that I was for Stevenson and that it was hopeless to talk to me about anything.

However, Mrs. Joseph Kennedy had asked me for lunch once in the summer of '59, and I had a feeling then that she had really asked me with the hope that she might find that I was interested in her son's candidacy, although she didn't say anything about it.

Then, once in Washington, Florence asked Kennedy and Jackie to dine in '59, and he asked me very interestedly about Mrs. Roosevelt's attitude toward him. Mrs. Roosevelt was hostile toward him because he had not come out against McCarthy. Her attitude was a great political worry to him. I said to him that I felt that he should talk to her himself personally, that the only way to reconcile any differences there were between them was for him to talk to her alone, and that she was always a person who was fair. Now, I know he did see her, and I don't think he entirely convinced her of whatever he wanted to convince of her in connection with his attitude towards McCarthy.

Talking wouldn't erase the record.