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I know that Josephus Daniels was there that day. I don't recall meeting him on the line, but I remember seeing him later on. He was very effusive, very warm-hearted, with a perfectly lovely, charming wife. Josephus was quite a person really, and a good, loyal friend among other things, as well as kind of ornate and florid in his flattery. He was also a good, faithful and loyal friend underneath.

All the Democrats you'd ever heard of, going back to the Wilson administration, appeared to be there. I didn't meet them all on the line, because people kept their place strictly on the line. You didn't walk up and down the line, or you would have lost your spot. Anyhow, it was very pleasant. There was a great deal of talking, a great deal of rejoicing, a great deal of expression of belief that the speech had been fine and that Roosevelt would do something.

We had been through a period of hardship, declining economy and agonizing lack of prosperity. So far as the people of the United states could see nothing had been done. There are those who write of that period who say that something was done, that it had been done in the inner circles, and had been done through financial and fiscal operations, with regard to money, and so forth. That didn't show to the people and the people were not aware that something had been