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anybody else. He was just looking around for ready cash. He got a contribution of

Interviewer:

A very substantial one.

Perkins:

Well, now listen. You're thinking of the thing that was not a contribution. He got a contribution of about '50,000, which is not so substantial, as a contribution. He got that from a number of other sources, and I guess he got some from a number of labor unions, whom he had had the perspicacity to see would probably come along. Because after all, Roosevelt had done so much for the labor crowd, you know, and “look how the N.R.A.'s helped you out, and look at all the laws we've passed, and so forth.

Jim, without ever saying anything to the President, was raising money for the campaign. He did it any way he could. But then towards the end of the campaign, he began to get short of ready cash. Cash is the thing. You may have a pledge, but you don't pay the help on Saturday night with a pledge, you see, nor do you buy the printing and all that kind of thing. Every party ends a campaign not in debt, but having to borrow the operating capital to go along on until their contributions are paid in. So Jim was in that stage. He had to buy railroad tickets and send people here and there, and he wanted money. I don't know where else he looked, but at any rate, he had become





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