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8. ER to James Roosevelt Roosevelt, August 14, 1921, 2 The Roosevelt Letters 412–413, Elliott Roosevelt, ed. (London: George G. Harrap, 1950).
9. Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story 328–329 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937).
10. ER to James Roosevelt Roosevelt, August 18, 1921, 2 Roosevelt Letters 413–414.
11. Dr. William W. Keen to ER, August 26, 1921, FDRL.
12. Frederic A. Delano to ER, August 20, 1921, FDRL.
13. Dr. Lovett’s groundbreaking study, The Treatment of Infantile Paralysis, was published in Philadelphia in 1916 by Blakiston. For the history of polio in the United States, and the cure inspired by FDR, see David M. Oshinsky, Polio: An American Story (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
14. ER to James Roosevelt Roosevelt, August 23, 1921, 2 Roosevelt Letters 414–415 (ER’s emphasis).
15. Quoted in Geoffrey C. Ward, A First-Class Temperament 590 (New York: Harper & Row, 1989).
16. Lovett Papers, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston.
17. Quoted in Ward, First-Class Temperament 591.
18. Dr. Bennett to Dr. Lovett, August 31, 1921, Lovett Papers.
19. 2 The Roosevelt Letters 415–416.
20. The New York Times, September 16, 1921.
21. FDR to Ochs, September 16, 1921, FDRL.
22. Dr. Draper to Dr. Lovett, September 24, 1921, Lovett Papers.
23. Ernest K. Lindley, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Career in Progressive Democracy 204 (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1931).
24. FDR to Daniels, October 6, 1921. FDRL.
25. Dr. Draper to Dr. Lovett, October 11, 1921, Lovett Papers.
26. Lovett notes, October 15, 1921, Ibid.
27. Dr. Draper to Dr. Lovett, November 19, 1921, Lovett Papers.
28. ER to SDR, December 15, 1921, FDRL.
29. Mrs. Lake to Dr. Lovett, December 17, 1921, Lovett Papers.
30. James Roosevelt and Sidney Shalett, Affectionately, F.D.R. 147 (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1959).
31. Ibid. 58, 146–147.
32. Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography 118 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961).
33. Interview, Frances Perkins, Columbia Oral History Project, Columbia University.
34. Quoted in Ward, First-Class Temperament 616.
35. Ibid. 616–617.
36. ER, Autobiography 117.
37. Ibid. 117–118.
38. Mrs. James [Sara] Roosevelt, My Boy Franklin 101 (New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, 1933).
39. WW to FDR, April 30, 1922, FDRL.
40. Dr. Draper to Dr. Lovett, March 30, 1922, Lovett Papers.
41. Ibid., July 10, 1922.
42. Dr. Lovett to FDR, August 14, 1922, FDRL.
43. FDR to Dr. Lovett, September 28, 1922, FDRL.
44. Anna Roosevelt Interview, Columbia Oral History Project, Columbia University.
45. FDR to Smith, August 13, 1922, FDRL. “I had quite a tussle in New York to keep our friend Hearst off the ticket and to get Al Smith to run, but the thing went through in fine shape,” FDR wrote his friend Joseph E. Davies shortly after the election. FDR to Davies, November 18, 1922, FDRL.
46. Smith to FDR, August 15, 1922, FDRL.
47. Howe to FDR, September 29, 1922, FDRL.
48. Smith to FDR, October 9, 1922, FDRL.
49. Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 277 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1971). Eleanor’s recollection differs slightly: “I was pushed into the women’s division of the Democratic State Committee, not because Louis cared so much about my activities, but because he felt that they would make it possible for me to bring into the house people who would keep Franklin interested in state politics.” Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember 30 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949).
50. Blanche Wiesen Cook, 1 Eleanor Roosevelt 319–320 (New York: Viking Penguin, 1992).
51. Dickerman ran a strong second against the conservative Speaker of the Assembly, Thaddeus C. Sweet, and effectively eliminated him as a potential gubernatorial candidate. Marion Dickerman interview, Columbia Oral History Project, Columbia University.
52. Cook, 1 Eleanor Roosevelt 320–321.
53. Because most of the correspondence between ER