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It's a difficult role to play.

Terribly difficult.

Then came the Democratic Convention. Of course it was perfectly obvious that Carter was going to be nominatod. I saw no reason to go and look at it in the hall, although I had tickets. I looked at in en television. I gave a fund-raising party for the Democratic Study Club at my apartment to which Senator Kennedy invited people to come in honor of for the benefit of the Study Club. I said no more than 50 should come; 250 came. It was a riot described in that clipping I gave you from New York magazine. I couldn't do it better or nearly as well myself, but extremely tiring to me.

Then I went to another cocktail party that I had a part in, organized by people interested in health problems in the Carter group -- Joe English, who was the hend of St. Vincent's Hospital, and Dr. Bourne and Mrs. Minc, his wife and we had Senator Kennedy, senator Magnuson, Congressman Dan Flood and Congressman Rogers at it, and Governor Carter's mother, Miss Lillian, came. I met her twice, and I must say she's absolutely charming. She's totally relaxed, without any pretension at all, absolutely unpompous and completely with whatever is going on and very very charming. She's going to be a great personality in his administration.