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ought to be - all things to all people. But I now look back on it and think that he should have told me, as many another did who wasn't going to do anything about it, “Sure, I'm with you.” That's what Jim Foley did. He was very interested. “Yes, indeed he would do everything he could,” stuff. He didn't and he tried to kill it in the end. Still he acted as a good politician should, but Roosevelt wasn't much interested in this bill although the record shows he voted for it.

Almost immediately he was sent for to come to Washington. Then he wasn't around the Legislature any more.

The first manuscript of my book has lots of things in it that aren't in my final book because I dictated it through a dictaphone. I put a lot of things in, but when it came to really saying, “Do they go in the book?”, I said, “No,” and pulled them out. I took Sidney Hillman's treachery out. I took Robert Wagner's treachery out. Those are important as illustrating the perfidy that can spring up in political associations, and even among people who you have every reason and every right to believe will be faithful to the end.

In February 1912 Theodore Roosevelt decided to throw his hat in the ring and try for the nomination. I was pretty