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that bill, perhaps an immigration committee. His bearing was perfectly good, perfectly conventional, reasonably courteous. In other words, he wasn't a crude boor. He wasn't that kind that you sometimes think people are. He was able to speak the English language well and properly and he knew how to behave himself.

I was very much disturbed by that. I couldn't see any reason for it. I could see nothing to be gained for him politically in Texas. After all, he was a Congressman from Texas. They didn't know me or care there. The New Deal was very popular in Texas. It had done a lot for Texas at that time. I saw no reason for his attitude then, and as I look back on it now and I see no reason for it. I see no political reason. I see nothing that Dies could have been hoping for that would have led him to a virulent attack upon me.

I assume therefore that there was in his mind some kind of bewilderment about understanding the purposes of this country, understanding the various motives that impel people. He came, after all, from that part of Texas which was part of the deep South, in a way. He cherished those strange hidden feelings of the defeated element in a great war. They are very suppressed feelings and you only realize that they are there when they break