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legislation, just referring to them. I had either contributed, revised, or been asked to see that these parts were all right. The speech as it came forth from him was quite different from the speech that I had seen a weak earlier. I didn't think too much about that. Then I discovered that it was quite different from the speech that people had seen the day before. A few people who had seen it the day before said it was quite different. I was told that day, and verified it through Early, that the president had sat up very late the night before and had made great changes in the speech. He had even risen early in the morning and made some more changes. It was in the morning that he added the sentence, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself” - that famous phrase. He put it in that morning before he got out of bed

That was Early's idea of a total headache. You had to let the press know that the speech wasn't going to be as it had been delivered to him. It was going to be changed, not only the way they had been told last night, but changed even more. It was a very difficult thing, but there was a reason for it. Roosevelt had arrived in Washington and had become increasingly aware, after he got there, of the terrible pain and pressure and fear that the people who were right in Washington were subject to. The people who came to his inauguration were under this pressure - the