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I think it alienated a lot of people in the Democratic organization who had been very well disposed to him up until that time.

The truth was that F.D.R. at that time was not a very important young man. By '32 I certainly had had a vague experience with him and certainly thought he was important. I thought he had a great deal more than Walter Lippmann thought when he said that Roosevelt was a likeable, personable young man with no particularly great qualifications at all. But during that early period he was not a particularly impressive person. Many a person who had no record at all was interesting, important and had ideas. The things that stand out in one's mind about him are just casual, superficial conversation, and as I've said in my book he had the nose in the air characteristic. I have a photograph of that. I couldn't find it when I was writing my book, but it has since turned up. It came out in some magazine like Time or Newsweek and I cut it out. I always mean to have it photostatted and enlarged, and at least put it in as an inter-leaf memo in that book because it's a perfect picture of him with a morning coat, striped trousers, a small derby hat, eyeglasses on his nose, talking to a man who, I think, is Theodore Douglas Robinson. I can't be absolutely certain,