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happen. He may have had good sound economic reasons for his feeling, but nobody else ever said that to me.
As you say, Roosevelt was a happy soul and he didn't want lugubrious, end-of-the-worlders around him. He didn't want Adolph around him either. Adolph didn't last very long. I never talked to the President about it, so I don't know whether Adolph told him that the great debacle was coming on the 15th of June, and then, if not the 15th of June, the 15th of August. I did know that Adolph made the President nervous, or at least that he didn't feel the need of Adolph in his daily life. I want to say that I wasn't gossip in those days so I didn't tell the President about this. I appear to be very gossipy now because I'm gossiping to the tape recorder. But I never told this story about Adolph to anybody, and nobody said to me that Adolph had said the same thing to them.
I haven't any idea what he based this on. I remember asking Lubin at the time, who was the only good economist that I had access to, about the general economic situation, not telling him that I had heard this. I asked if there was anything in the picture that he, as an economist, and in daily contact with other economists and statisticians, knew that would indicate that things would be very much worse in mid-summer. I remember using the term “mid-summer”
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