A SPLENDID AMERICAN:
Farley, James A.
J a r b g know, and I won." The victory was not his last. In 1931 he fashioned a network of support for Governor Franklin Roosevelt that abutted his victorious drive to the White House. As...
...Though perhaps surprised by his firm grip and hale countenance, they are aware that he is the dean of the nation's Democrats...
...Farley: O h it's too early to say a thing like that, but I'm optimistic enough about the future to feel that this will clear itself...
...But the American people have the faculty of being able to rally and get together in time of trouble...
...The nwe had World W a r I and World W a r II...
...I think the television has been most educational...
...What do you feel is the biggest problem facing the United States today...
...Farley: I haven't any idea where they grow from...
...I see where this fellow Hayden, a leader of the Chicago demonstrators — I see where he's been arrested and put on probation for a year...
...I was brought up in the Democratic Party...
...We're going to spend a lot of money on poverty...
...H e knew finances better than anybody else in the municipal government but he didn't look the part...
...Tyrrell: Hoyle...
...for traces of sodium pentathol, the only drug they fear to take, lest it reveal their moral likeness to Dorian Gray...
...The Democrats only lost three or four seats in the House and maybe two or three in the Senate...
...I think it's good...
...And every generation of Americans has had problems...
...Tyrrell: W e would like him to run for national office...
...W e didn't have radio, we didn't have any media except the newspapers in those days...
...W e had the W a r of 1812...
...They elected their Dehiocratic governors...
...We've got to stop some of our research...
...Sander Van Ocker of N B C and these other fellows went to nobody but the dissenters...
...They made the selections...
...Tyrrell: You believe they did do it...
...Farley: Sure, they'll get back...
...In 1940, the pull of principle tugged him away from his friend and chief when F D R decided for a third term...
...Tyrrell: How deeply do you think the Vietnam War has effected these kids...
...The division that was made, or the allocation that was made was always accepted by the party leaders...
...There's no doubt about that...
...His charm and affability still attracted the politicians: a Democratic festivity would not be a festivity without him...
...O n campuses they invoke disorders, destroy property, suppress free speech, impede free movemnt, and engage in insiu:rection, all in the name of creating a more democratic society...
...Tyrrell: Do you think the McCarthy people had a legitimate complaint when they repined over a "stacked convention...
...I was elected by the Democratic State Committee, and they tried to elect to the delegates-at-large men who held high position in the party and men who had made contributions — men and women too...
...For the past several years all N e w Leftists fearfully have cringed in their hovels for seven days in M a y , there awaiting the final military apocaljnpse...
...W e think he's a great man...
...But they should have gone to college and tried to pursue their educational career and not act the way they did at the Chicago convention, because they were not delegates...
...N o w we're going to have a primary...
...W e had the W a r of Mexico...
...W e know what's there, we're within forty or fifty or sixty miles of it, what can you prove in research by landing on the moon...
...Can they get back together...
...N o w Stevenson could have won the Presidency running against anybody but against Eisenhower...
...Every element of our society and every generation of our society had problems...
...Murphy at Tammany Hall (that's a long time ago) and those who followed were good fellows...
...I'm a strong Dehiocrat but I think it's good...
...And they'd stand up on their seats and roar and hiss and boo and cat-call and do everything they could to make it difficult for the presiditig officer of the convention to preside...
...The adage that means determine ends is as applicable to today's N e w Left as it was to the Bolsheviks in 1917...
...N o trouble in that...
...Maybe they can get together and let him speak for the entire city...
...N o w you can get on television and tell a story that goes all over the country...
...In m y opinion there was some Communistic influence in back of it...
...It's incredible the progress that has been made...
...Every hoine had a boy in the service and he was their general, you see...
...N o w they have a right to dissent, but dissent in a very favorable and businesslike way, and make known their wants through a committee, if you will...
...And he was defeated, you see...
...A little bit of a fellow but he'd been in the comptroller's office for years...
...A nice fellow, short fellow of Jewish extraction...
...If we get involved in another war, if this Russian situation gets worse, if the Middle East situation gets worse, nobody knows at the moment how long this Vietnam W a r is going to last...
...Farley: Well H-O-Y-L-E...
...Eisenhower came along after the war — the people wanted a change — you know they were sick of the war, they wanted a change and Eisenhower was an attract(Continued on Page 16) 15 ^arleg (Continued from Page 15) ive figure...
...And the questions they ask me...
...Never in m y life have I felt so (Continued on Page 13) Ifarkg (Continued from Page 5) keenly about the attitude of delegates as I did in this convention...
...And when they start talking about the curriculum, it's all wrong...
...It's difficult to even understand h o w it's done...
...And there it is, and Lindsay came into power...
...I was given a ticket to the banquet which I promptly burned...
...And that's true of the Puerto Ricans...
...But this crowd acted terribly...
...Certainly we need another leader who can bring people back together — another F D R perhaps...
...A lot of those places could be filled by colored men and women if they had a high school education or better...
...They were going to start into training, you know, to do thus and so...
...The leader in N e w York City and Manhattan has always been recognized as the Democratic leader of the city and of the state...
...Here in N e w York we're in a bad situation...
...In 1940 when delegates to the Democratic convention nominated Farley for the presidency he demurred, quietly passing into private life...
...W e can't permit that to go on...
...A lot of students go along with the crowd...
...H e was a world war hero...
...It has to be that way...
...And we've got to do everything we possibly can to keep the people of this country in a happy frame of mind — as happy as you can keep them...
...That's been a custom in this state...
...N o w we have Rossetti here — he's one of the officials in the Plasterer's National Union...
...W h e n they talk about the Democratic party being dead here, they only lost the Presidency by a half million votes — popular votes — despite the fact that Wallace took all those Southern states purely on civil rights . . . purely on civil rights you see...
...Farley: Hoyle, that's an expression, you know...
...And there will be three or four more...
...Television has a great impact...
...N o w I'm not sure as to the number, but it's a substantial number...
...M u c h of this anomie results from ritualistic liberaldumb's acquiescence before minor pressure...
...W h e n they started this country on the Eastern seaboard, as they moved across, each generation had woes...
...N o w , you see, they came there for the expressed purpose of breaking u p the convention and Daley didn't permit them to do so...
...The N e w Radicals will march, just as they marched into Mississippi, Sproul Hall, and the urban slums of the North...
...Those kind of fellows are...
...W e as a country, as a people, w e neglect the education of the Negro...
...They wanted, for instance, the chairman of the delegation from N e w Hampshire and Peterson, the fellow from Wisconsin — he was moving to adjourn the convention for twentyfour hours...
...We're faced with that situation now — I'in not talking in terms of integration or anything like that — I'm talking in terms of giving them an education...
...Tyrrell: Do you see the radical students as a threat to democracy...
...I was a district delegate in '28, elected in m y congressional district...
...The same is true in medicine...
...And those are the fellows they went to...
...I'd disagree but on election day I'd go along...
...I'm not saying that we shouldn't, I'm merely asking the question, is it necessary that we do that and not do for hundreds of thousands of Americans who are starving and who are not getting a good education...
...there isn't any doubt these things are infectious, you see...
...But they were responsible...
...In 1936 the infallible Literary Digest predicted a Landon sweep, even Dr...
...N o w I'm going to have to ask myself the question...
...This fellow who is recognied as a city boss, right or wrong, no matter how competent, capable or intelligent or honest he is — they put the aura of "bossism" around a fellow like that, and it's hard to overcome...
...There are housands and thousands of jobs that thy would be able to fill if they had a sufficient educational background...
...Even though you disagreed with them and they disagreed with you, there was nothing personal about it, and they acted as decent men and women...
...Farley: Yes, but he has no chance for national office, I don't think...
...These universities do them a favor, and I think they're doing a great disfavor to their parents by acting the way they are...
...The next generation and the one that follows are going to be seeing things that w e never would have thought could ever have been accomplished...
...Farley: I think it's changed because of television...
...In the early days they had it on radio, 14 you see...
...It's amazing the knowledge she has of the things that go on in the world...
...W h e n Smith was defeated for the Presidency in 1928, they said the Democratic Party would be out of power for fifty years...
...Tyrrell: What do you feel the future of the Democratic Party is...
...The answer they'd get from me, the comment they'd get from m e — that wasn't what they wanted...
...If they had won it wouldn't have been a stacked convention...
...You can make a prophecy and you might hit it, but I don't think you can honestly — for instance, I wouldn't predict a Democratic victory in 1972 now, because how are you going to figure what might happen which I hope doesn't happen overseas...
...N o w a lot of the reform elements four years ago supported Lindsay openly because they weren't satisfied with Bean, who won the nomination in a primary...
...And you didn't get as wide a knowledge of the problem as you do now...
...Continued on Page 5) Newfield eulogizes the N e w Left's pristine virtue...
...Emotionally fixated at the age of temper tantrums, the N e w Left will use any means at hand to achieve either of their two possible goals: self-annihilation or total dominance...
...It's really, I think, a very bad situation...
...Look at this satellite performance...
...What threat to our social order m a y we anticipate from the N e w Left...
...Tyrrell: Has politics changed since the 'twenties and 'thirties...
...I'm not complaining, I merely mention it...
...They had their greatest victory four years later...
...Some men don't get across on T V . They're competent, capable, speak well — there's something about their features or their voice...
...They didn't know what they were talking about...
...They'd elect two delegates from every congressional district, and then the state was entitled to so many electoral votes...
...It is this acquiescence in perfidity that has agonized the average American and swollen the ranks of that totalitarian cretin, George Corley Wallace...
...Today, as Daniel J. Boorstin noted, the "tsnraimy of the minority", once given its head, m a y cause considerable mayhem, due to the many communicationtransportation nexuses of a post-industrial society...
...If they are not satisfied with the conditions of the university then they ought to resign and go to some university where the conditions would meet with their approval...
...They will continue to challenge the gods because they are cursed with the passion of Ahab and the innocence of Billy Budd...
...What he anticipates ". . . isn't so bad, the American people are still basically all right...
...I think it's an outrage, and I think that the most courageous thing that's been done by any college has been done by Father Hesburgh at Notre Dame...
...W e could hear it over television and radio...
...I believe they have a right to dissent, but I'm very disgusted with these students w h o are accepted by the college with the full knowledge of what the conditions are in the college, and then they disrupt the institution by having these meetings that they have and these riotings that they have — and they're only a very small percentage of the students in the university...
...It is probable that today's social anomie is at an all time high...
...If we resist the totalitarian leftists today, shortly their frustrated impulses will lead to their o w n self-destruction: a perverse self-flagellation in which they take secret delight...
...It was in demise four years ago...
...As long as w e went as far as we did, why not land...
...N o w at other conventions I went to, delegates would disagree and have their favorite candidate, but they acted like gentlemen and gentlewomen...
...There were four or five or six of them...
...People don't realize that...
...J a r b g know, and I won...
...They were elected according to the election laws in every state of the union...
...Maybe they have...
...I was a delegate-at-large...
...And to prophesy — nobody is going to prophesy what the economy of the country is go16 ing to be now...
...Recently the N e w Left has manifested the ssmiptoms of an advanced stage of social paranoia...
...When you think that here w e are in an affluent society, and here we have people starving in Mississippi and in West Virginia and in other parts of the world...
...I mean it's incredible the advantage that they have had over the last generation, if you will, or the generation before that...
...And in business and plastics and the idea of going to the moon...
...Is he the last of a breed...
...He didn't come over as well on T V . Call it his makeup, call it what you will...
...Farley: No, though I am thoroughly disgusted with the radical students...
...And regardless of what party is in power and who's the President, basically the American people are all right...
...Tyrrell: Didn't one of the T V stations put a microphone in one of the caucus rooms...
...Tyrrell: Let me ask you one final question...
...As postmaster general he assiduously reinforced this network, helping to make it the most successful political coalition of the century...
...I think most of the trouble in the convention was, in a large measure, brought about by television...
...I was amazed at these young men whose pictures appeared — I've forgotten who they were at the time...
...I think that if they wanted to go to college, and by going to college they didn't have to go to war, that's all right with me...
...Farley: You haven't had the experience — the only way you can get it is by virtue of years of activity...
...They catne from all over the United States...
...The gift of prophecy had alighted on him and has remained ever since...
...This Memorial Day he will be eighty-one, yet young politicians wear a path to his office...
...they elected their representatives in Congress and in the Senate...
...The Saturday Evening Club thinks a lot of Mayor Daley...
...I think that was in cards — that's just an expression, you know...
...There are so taany programs to m e that aren't too hot maybe, but in the overall picture more information comes over television acquainting people with a lot of things they would never know anything about...
...It happens in one place, it's happened in another...
...They weren't always strong men, big men, but they were fairly strong leaders...
...And the example is bad — it is a lack of discipline...
...There's quite a job ahead...
...Nobody...
...daily during this trying ordeal they test their drinking water (you didn't expect bathing water, did you...
...For instance, Columbia College had approximately 30,000 students and there were 400 students who were in this group of what might be called the rioters...
...And here they have gone to the moon (two hundred some odd thousand miles) and while they were up that far distance you could hear them speaking to the control...
...What about the future of the Republican Party...
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...That's what I'm trying to say to you...
...The palmy days of the politician had ended, but not those of the gentleman...
...It begs description...
...I have a seventeen-year-old granddaughter who just left here, who's going to college next fall...
...And they were generally men of fine character — and responsible men — and they'd select them, they'd divide them around the state in what might be termed judicial disricts...
...We're going to have to spend a lot of money on this colored situation...
...That was done in the meeting of the platform committee...
...Every idiot with a microphone scurries around asking us what we think about world problems...
...Tyrrell: At the Saturday Evening Club we feel ineffably too much time is devoted by the media to drooling over "our generation...
...While by itself it can not destroy this society, it can and already has seriously strained the fragile threads which maintain the always frail social fabric...
...We're spending billions on defense, we're spending billions going to the moon, if you will, and here people are starving...
...As Ronald Berman has noted, "the threat of violence from the new left is about as material as from the ineffably ridiculous Minute Men...
...They might go to Lindsay...
...N o w I'm not criticizing anybody, I'm merely making an observation...
...Farley: Well, I think a great many of them went to college because they didn't want to become involved in the war, and I'm not quarreling with them for that point of view...
...And they went on to great victories...
...H o w far it went and what the outcome of it was I don't know...
...We've made more progress, electronically speaking, over the last twenty-five years than we've made in the history of mankind...
...I believe that to be true, you see...
...N o w Vtn not one of those — there isn't any doubt in m y mind that youth are better educated and more knowledgeable than they were in m y day when I started college...
...N o w Mr...
...And these people make it appear that they weren't properly represented...
...And he's a good-looking fellow, speaks well and is very attractive, but he's proved that he's not a good administrator...
...Tyrrell: And Taft of course . . . Farley: O h sure...
...Farley: They say that...
...At their age, I wouldn't have known enough to ask those questions...
...Tyrrell: Are big city politics dying...
...Yet there is hope for America...
...dear readers...
...N o w you can blame this fellow and that fellow, and you can blame this party and that party, but it doesn't do any good to blame people for what has happened...
...As a direct consequence of this Armageddon complex, the ever so noble N e w Left is prepared to employ realpolitik which Cesare and Lucretia Borgia might have envied...
...The delegates-at-large were selected and have been for one hundred years by the Democratic State Committee of the party — the ruling organization of the party...
...And why should 400 people annoy and destroy the opportunities that 29,600 students wanted in order to carry on their studies...
...I'm not quarreling with them for not wanting to go to war...
...Farley: W h o m did he speak for...
...I don't know whether he wants to run mayor again, but I'm convinced that if Daley wanted to run for mayor the people of Chicago would elect him overwhelmingly...
...It's still the majority party in the Congress...
...Certainly there isn't anything they can take away from the moon's surface, I don't think, that will aid mankind or aid in our civilization...
...Those delegates were elected according to Hoyle, the way delegates have been elected for one hundred years or more...
...And the generations that follow will benefit...
...It's dead...
...Farley: He's made a bad administrator here in the city...
...There was never any trouble about it...
...George Gallup was shy of the mark...
...No, they didn't have the delegates, they never had the delegates and he never had a chance to be nominated...
...But why would a young editor from the Saturday Evening Club approach him...
...Kennedy would never have been heard of...
...w e have men in Europe — I suppose we have one-half million men overseas other than those in Vietnam...
...People sit home and they see grand Opera and they see these fine shows, and they see all these exhibitions, they see these sporting events, they see the Olympics...
...W e still have men in Korea...
...They are not loyal...
...Everything out in front of those hotels — all those things that were being done by those dissenters — they put that on T V . Tyrrell: They didn't consult Mayor Daley much . . . Farley: They consulted nobody that they thought would be opposed to the opinion that they wanted to get expressed by these dissenters...
...Tyrrell: He spoke for the Republicans out there, and I wasn't about to go to something like that...
...As they fought the Indians, they fought privation, they fought starvation, they fought everything...
...N o w he's recognized as a leader here, but Bronx and Brooklyn and Queens and Statten Island don't recognize him as the leader...
...He won it fairly...
...They (Continued on Page 14) 13 Ifarkg (Continued from Page 13) caused a lot of the trouble — and if you tell that to these television fellows they get very much annoyed...
...I don't want to make a misstatement out of that...
...H e didn't know what he was talking about...
...Eisenhower would have been elected to a third term if the twenty-third amendment hadn't prevented it...
...But a fine man...
...Tyrrell: Often it appears the nation is fracturing...
...T h e sensible kids c o m e back...
...Farley: Well I think the biggest problem today facing the United States is the education of the colored people...
...In 1931 he fashioned a network of support for Governor Franklin Roosevelt that abutted his victorious drive to the White House...
...N o w they're likely to have what one might call a blood-letting, get into a bitter primary fight...
...And time will have to take care of these other questions...
...And if they do the fellows will get so sore at one another, a lot of them won't support the fellow w h o is selected in the primary...
...every profferred hand, a booby trap...
...Farley: Yes...
...Is there going to be a big split...
...All civilized m a n awaits the transfiguration...
...Farley: Oh, why sure...
...There isn't any doubt he would have run for the third term and been elected...
...Is this not somewhat naive...
...I don't think there's any question about that...
...Roosevelfs health had declined dangerously, Farley acquiesced to "the chief's" third candidacy...
...Farley: Well, somebody else will come along...
...Farley: W h y , of course...
...W h y they violated the law...
...Nobody in the Chicago convention came to m e and asked m e what I thought of the situation...
...And because of those votes they would elect delegates-at-large...
...in comparison with Kennedy he didn't do too well...
...W e have a given number of delegates-at-large in N e w York State...
...That's Lindsay's only chance to be reelected, is a split in the Democratic Party...
...Tyrrell: Their animosities, from where do they grow...
...And when they hissed and booed, the speakers on the platform were not sympathetic to their point of view, and they acted like spoiled children...
...He's a nice fellow, he's of Italian extraction and he's in the Assembly...
...Those states are Democratic...
...H e would have made a good mayor...
...He isn't a strong fellow — I'm not talking about his honesty or dishonesty — but he isn't a strong leader as such, you see...
...And all he did was talk about the Vietnam War...
...In their Speed-ravaged minds every jocular gas-station p u m p jockey becomes a spy for the military-industrial complex...
...W e had the SpanishAmerican War...
...Tyrrell: It's hard to believe that that could have happened...
...N o w I suppose a scientist would say I'm crazy...
...But when they went there, what they should have done is pursued their studies and tried to graduate and get out in civil life or whatever life they intended to follow after they left college, and not disturb and give a bad example...
...Tyrrell: Do you feel Mayor Daley is a good mayor...
...I won't say completely, but there must be a lack of respect for their parents...
...For example, we have Lindsay here w h o is a terrible mayor — the worst mayor we've ever had from an administration's point of view...
...Look at these transplants...
...W e had the Korean W a r and now we have the Vietnam War, and you have trouble in the Middle East...
...But to go into a university like Columbia and these other universities, and cause thousands and thousands of dollars worth of damage — tear out telephones, break up and burn books and burn records like they did in the office of the President's home the other day...
...And I was elected as a delegate-at-large...
...but I think a great deal of it stems from the discipline in the home...
...You look up in the N e w York Times any morning here and the N e w York Post, but particularly the Times — a half dozen pages, more or less, where they're seeking help — advertising for help — men and women...
...I mean, it shows he was a stupid fellow...
...In other words, he wasn't elected to that position, but the fact that he was the leader in N e w York City, Tammany Hall, he was recognized by the other burroughs as the leader...
...I was brought up that way...
...Is there any hope of getting these kids back...
...But wait...
...You probably saw that...
...In the N e w York delegation w e had a lot of delegates w h o had never been to a convention before...
...N o one, frankly, can prophesy what's going to happen four years from now...
...On the campus and in the street ritualistic liberaldumb often caves in to leftist demands, voiced in the name of greater freedom, on the assumption that any demand couched in such terms can not be denied the insurgents, less the old left be accused of stagnating or of losing its revolutionary vigor...
...I remember a few years ago when I saw the announcement that four or five of these taien had been selected to go to the moon, I said, " M y God, h o w can they do that...
...They took their positions — they didn't hiss and boo and horrah...
...So each area of the state — in other words all the delegates didn't come from N e w York City — N e w York City got its proportion — but above the N e w York City line they were distributed in Albany and Troy and Buffalo and Rochester and Binghamton...
...They look upon themselves as having as touch responsibility and influence as he has...
...Masochists at heart, perverse by nature, and consummately nefarious, the gods have reserved a special place for these social deviates — in the cast of thousands for the annual performance of the Moussorgsky bacchanal "Night on Bald Moimtain...
...W e finally moved across the country and the center of the country was settled, homesteaded...
...Though feeling the eight-year-old administration had nurtured an inauspicious cast amongst some members of the administration, that Cordell Hull, John W . Davis, and Jesse Jones would more effectively lead the nation through the parlous years ahead, and that Mr...
...I have no quarrel with that, no quarrel at all with that...
...They were there as delegates pledged to Senator Kennedy who unfortunately had been assassinated and pledged to McCarthy...
...And he got a lot of young people — a lot of students — he got a sympathetic feeling among them...
...By satellite now you can see an event in R o m e or Switzerland or in Tokyo...
...I was a delegate-at-Iarge every year after 1932, including 1932...
...Do you see one who can galvanize people...
...Farley: No, there was no convention stacked at all...
...The fact that the analogy is now stale does not negate its essential value...
...W e have a reform element in here w h o are concerned, I think, mostly with their own advancement...
...Labor, ethnic groups . . . Farley: I wouldn't say that...
...And those w h o didn't come from what might be called first families were fine, decent people, good representatives of their community, and they were all right...
...That's the important thing — the education of the colored and the Puerto Ricans...
...That was an N B C fellow...
...A n d m a n y of the delegates — the M c C a r t h y and the Kennedy delegates . . . N o w I've been a delegate to the convention since 1924...
...They not only dissented, they violated the law...
...Tyrrell: How do you spell it...
...A lot of them didn't want to go to war...
...But campaign manager Farley predicted Roosevelt, with five hundred twenty-three electoral votes, would capture every state but Maine and Vermont...
...No, I wouldn't go along with that...
...If the progress that has been made is any forerunner of what w e can do in the future there's no way to measure...
...M a n y of these people went out there to Chicago for the expressed purpose of breaking u p that convention...
...One generation had the Civil W a r — prevented the union from being broken up...
...Personally I don't understand why, and I'm not a scientist or anything like that, but I don't understand why it's necessary for us to land on the moon...
...every friendly gesture, a Judas signal to the fuzz...
...And to attempt to say that w e can't do this or w e can't do that is silly...
...From his cavernous Manhattan office, decorated with the memorabilia of Popes, prime ministers and grateful presidents, he still perceives America's future with the uncanny accuracy he has exhibited for so many years...
...I have very definite views o n this and it annoys the life out of m e . Tyrrell: At the Democratic Convention, those demonstrating in the streets showed an utter alienation from the American political system...
...I wasn't in '28...
...there's something w r o n g with them...
...I suppose they're afraid they'd be called chicken if they didn't...
...N o b o d y should be permitted to violate the law, and if they violate the law they should be expected to be treated as criminals, because that's what they are...
...Confirmed in their moral rectitude, they see themselves in a Zoroastrian struggle in which any weapon, deceit or ploy m a y be legitimately used against their collective Ahriman: American society...
...Quite clearly by itself it can not bring down this civilization...
...Farley: I know but it's a good thing for the country that the parties are strong...
...And that's true now...
...For his prescience...
...M a y b e it's a misdemeanor, if y o u will...
...There are three or four candidates already announced...
...Lindsay was a foot taller than he and attractive...
...Farley: I wouldn't worry about them...
...Tyrrell: Would you agree with M. Stanton Evans who has said that the old Roosevelt coalition, as of this election, is in bad shape...
...Consequently, as Bruno Bettelheim cogently has written, the campus revolutionaries, anarchists, and nihilists "are so much more dangerous because they can point to success after success of their disrupting tactics...
...I never felt more out of place in a delegation in m y life as I did in that N e w York delegation which always consisted of men and women of culture and of good breeding...
...There's no excuse for what they do...
...The parallel of the contemporary U. S. to Weimar Germany comes easily to mind...
...We've always had pretty good leaders here in N e w York State...
...W h y he would want any more of it I don't know...
...They think the fact that Nixon won — he only got forty-three per cent of the vote...
...They come for his advice, inspiring conversation, and something more — the effluvium of his splendid character...
...Roosevelt was on radio in '32 and '36 but when television came on, men have to create images on T V . There isn't any doubt that Nixon was hurt in his debate with Kennedy...
...I was elected in '24 but in '32 I was a delegate-at-large and in all the conventions that followed...
...Tyrrell: I might mention that last week Lindsay spoke in Indianapolis where our offices are...
...and Bean, I don't know, I think was born in England...
...From what the newspaper stories indicated there was an investigation to be made...
Vol. 2 • May 1969 • No. 5
