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defense, and you can't take any chances on your defense.

You ask me if I ever spoke to Farley about this, and say that it did have tremendous implications in the party. Now, I don't know about that. Sumners felt it would be troublesome to the party. It wasn't as though I was being impeached, however, by a member of the party. Parnell Thomas was a Republican and he was the one who introduced the resolution. I think I must have talked to Jim Farley about it, but not seriously, Jim's advice was always, “Go and do the best you can.” I'm sure that he didn't talk to many people about it. Everybody in the Cabinet and the administration were super-friendly to me during this period, going out of their way to be helpful and nice, to agree with me, to show me small courtesies of one kind or another. There was plenty of good feeling from them all. But it was profitless to talk about it. It really was. It was an expression of confidences in me, I think. I could look out for myself.

After all these years it is evident to me that they couldn't have impeached me. Even at the time I was almost sure that I couldn't be impeached. I was almost sure that there was not anything upon which a properly constituted court would find impeacability. The only problem was my doubt of the operation of the