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your own resources--just out yourself out completely?
I don't know, I'm sure. I think I would have, yes. I think that I would have. I think that I would have attempted to write as though in the year 1884 or something like that, you know. I'm afraid I would have sort of begun it in that style.
But I began it by writing this preamble which I worked over very hard and showed to George, and he thought that was good, and then we proceeded from that.
Then he said, “When did you first see Roosevelt?”
“Oh, I met him socially, you see.”
“Well, where was it?”
“Well,” I said, “it was at Mrs. Waldron Brown's house, at a tea dance”--laughingly, you know.
“That's all right,” said George. “Leave that in. But that right in, just like that.” And just go on from there, and tell how you first picked up on the political situation, you see--how did you happen to be in Albany so it was natural for you to observe him there? You have to tell how you got there, you know, or your observations don't mean anything.”
He had a chronological approach in mind?
Well, not completely. I think he was just trying to
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