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It frequently shows in the desire to eat or the willingness to eat. Food that choked you two or three hours earlier, now you can swallow. It was that sort of tension relieved. I don't know why that is, but it's always the way, and the same kind of thing took place there.

Mrs. Roosevelt had as tateroom at the end of one of the cars, and she stayed there. One by one people went up to speak to her if they wanted to, and have a little chat with her. I told her how Mrs. Truman had gone up and talked with her, and they talked about the Press conference, which Mrs. Roosevelt was proposing to her that they have within a day or two, and she would introduce her. I think of that only as an example of Mrs. Roosevelt's extreme steadfastness, and her holding up throughout all this situation which would prove so overpowering to many people. She held up with a kind of grim and yet reasonable determination not to give way and to do what she had to do, and of course she had a lot to do in a very short time.

She had to pack up the house. I mean, she had to pack up all the things that belonged to her. And although she had people to help her, there's a certain amount of it that you must do yourself, you must look at yourself. There are plenty of people to box things up and send them off.

I remember that Mrs. Truman said to her, “Don't hurry





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