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remember any of them.

“This is to be what you knew about Roosevelt.”

Whose idea was the title?

George Bye's or mine. I don't remember. We sort of arrived at that together. It wasn't very important, except that this was to be “about Roosevelt and you--Roosevelt as you saw him.” I think that was one of the publishers' titles: Roosevelt as I Saw Him. You know, you didn't see him from his cradle to his grave, but you saw him in a certain work relationship, and you saw him under a variety of circumstances, and you made an estimate of the man and of the situation in order to work with him. “And that's all you know about him, so say that”--you see--“That's all you've got to tell about him, was what you learned about him because you had to learn about him, not out of idle curiosity but because you had to work with him. You didn't attempt to pry into his soul--at least you say you didn't--but, not out of idle curiosity, you had to find out something about him in order to do the work that you were going to do together. And you can't tell that without telling something about yourself. How did you happen to see him that day? Don't write it in the third person.”

Would you have done so, if you'd been left to