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of mistakes and that he would talk himself out, but toward the end of the campaign the President got very disturbed about Willkie and about the headway he was making. It wasn't only Willkie, although he was an attractive personality, but it wa the war situation, the dread of war, the fear that Roosevelt couldn't protect you and that Willkie could say outright that he would never go to war, and I think he did say it pretty plainly. Roosevelt began to bestir himself. He began to make more speeches and do more political things himself.

I was out a long time campaigning. I was away for two weeks at a time in different place. Of course, they worked me to death in New England. It's very important to carry Massachusetts. Rhode Island and Connecticut don't have so many electoral votes, but Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois are awfully important. In all of those States I had a personal following - that is, I had an acquaintanceship, political and other, which was enough to make pretty sure that I would get an audience from among the unconvinced, or some from the unconvinced. So I was put to work in those places. I think I went mostly to those States. I went to the coast on a private mission, not a political one. It was





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