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“Well, for God's sake go right upstairs and dictate that to your dictating machine.”

“Oh,” I said, “I didn't think that that would be interesting.”

“Everything he ever said to you about politics--every political discussion you ever had--that's what's going to fascinate people.”

Then, after he'd read some more, he said to me, “Didn't he ever talk to you about his family at all?”

I said, “Oh yes, but of course that's a privileged communication. You know, you shouldn't say anything about what a man says about his family. It only was because I knew them.”

“Well,” he said, “perhaps you're right. But surely he said things to you about Mrs. Roosevelt you could put down?”

“Oh, yes,” I said. “Why, he talked about Mrs. Roosevelt a good deal. He didn't sit down and discuss Mrs. Roosevelt for an hour, but in the course of man conversation, he would say this and this, and six weeks later, he'd say something else about Eleanor Roosevelt.”

He said, “So put down that.” I mean, that business about what pretty hair she had--it was purely fished up out of the sink. That was Taubman's idea.

“Well,” I said, “the things he said to me about Eleanor