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Q:

He didn't learn very much.

Perkins:

Well, he perhaps didn't learn very much, but he learned that, you see. He learned enough to stop asking the President to sign pronunciamentos.

Q:

Did you know Byrnes's adviser, Ed Pritchard?

Perkins:

Oh yes, I knew Pritchard.

Q:

Bad actor.

Perkins:

No. Isn't it curious, I was thinking about him this morning. What brought him into my mind? Oh, I know-- I read an artcile in the New Yorker that was signed by a man named Pritchard. It wasn't that one, but it made Pritchard come to my mind, and I wondered what had happened to him.

See, they got him on some ballot thing and put him in prison. It was a patheic thing. He was a very bright man, just as bright as he could be, sparkling all over, but awfully sort of pleased with his brightness, and no humility in him at all, you know--not a bit. Pleased with himself, and jolly and gay, and loving to do things in this funny underground style, thought it was great fun and so forth.

He wasn't a bad sort. He was bright. He didn't have that thing that really, I suppose, is basic in human character





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