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Perkins:

Well, I didn't think ill of him. I didn't think much about Hannegan.

Interviewer:

Certainly no Farley or Walker. Heavily political, is the view of him that I had.

Perkins:

He was heavily political, but not without ambition and integrity of a kind--ambition to do well and do the right thing, you know.

Interviewer:

He seemed to have a lot of liberal tendencies.

Perkins:

He had a lot of liberal tendencies, and he would stand up and back you, and those things. I didn't have much impression of him, one way or the other. I knew him all the time, but I thought very little about him. I mean, he was obviously less a man than either Walker or Farley.

Interviewer:

Let's think about the 1944 convention in Chicago. It was a hard campaign. I don't know what's happened to these political conventions. They proceeded to nominate Truman. I don't think I dealt with the convention at all in The Roosevelt I Knew. I mean, he was nominated, and I certainly didn't go into the business of how they decided on Truman. I never knew how they decided on Truman, really. No, I didn't, not really. I think it was Jimmy Byrnes. Jimmy Byrnes





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