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Interviewer:

I don't mean a political change. I suspect a change in the man himself, an inherent change.

Perkins:

Well, I don't know about that--except that I know that when he got into this campaign (1948), he was a different type of person.

Interviewer:

His diary changes. It started changing after the B.E.W. fight, and there was a marked change after the Convention of '44, and it continued through out the Truman Administration years.

Perkins:

Leading up to his Progressive Party period? Well, of course, I always thought that if he hadn't had this rupture of his relations with Truman and the Cabinet at that time, he might never have gone into the Progressive party.

Interviewer:

Have you read that this rupture with Truman was premeditated--that he knew exactly what he was doing?

Perkins:

You think so?

Interviewer:

I don't know.

Perkins:

Has anybody published that?

Interviewer:

No. I just say, supposing you did read that in a book, what would you think of it?

Perkins:

Well, I wouldn't think that likely--because what





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