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“It's terrible,” you know, and “What'll we do?”--something of that sort. The President laughed and he said, “Yes, the most unbelievable thing that ever happened--why, they weren't even letters to a woman!”

I heard him say that, and then laugh. I suppose, as I learned since what they were that were being talked about and what was done, I suppose that it was at that time that they were talking about how to suppress them and how to keep them out of circulation. And Roosevelt laughed. I mean, he thought it was funny. I don't think he was disconcerted in a serious way. He just thought it was past believing that such a thing would happen.

Interviewer:

You saw no break between Wallace and Roosevelt, as far as you could discern?

Perkins:

No, not as far as I could discern. No break. And certainly Roosevelt stood by him. I mean, the President talked to me about that. Now I recall. He talked to me about a place for Wallace. That would be after the convention and after the election.

Interviewer:

But you see, the crucial thing is why didn't Wallace get the Vice Presidential nomination again?

Perkins:

Oh well, I don't know. I mean, that might be just-- I never knew why he didn't. I think it was political--





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