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You'd go to him about something else and he'd say, “Well, I might as well tell you right now there's no chance for that. They're just not going to do it.”

I'd say, “But why?”

“It's not in the cards this year. You might as well know it. I don't want to mislead you.”

I said, “Well, we've got to make our presentation.”

“That's all right. You should make your presentation. You should appear before the committees, but you might as well know in your own heart that they're not going to do anything now. But keep on appearing and some day you may persuade them. But it's not in the cards this year.”

No other politician did that. They spoke me fair, let me run around and then let me get disappointed, thinking that some accident had happened that I didn't know anything about, or that I hadn't made a good presentation. But Smith would sort of put you on to the political ropes and he apparently trusted you not to go and blab it where it would be embarrassing to him. I never went and said to anybody, “Well, Mr. Smith told me that this wouldn't be done, wasn't in the cards this year.” I didn't tell it. In fact, I didn't want to admit it. I always went on hoping that we'd get it and make our presentation.