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54. Roosevelt was particularly concerned to organize the distaff vote. “Get the right kind of woman in every election district,” he wrote Caroline O’Day of the Women’s Division. “There are thousands of election districts upstate where it is not only unfashionable to be a Democrat, but even where Democrats are rather looked down upon. It is absolutely necessary for us to restore in the country districts … the prestige of the party. Democratic women have too often in the past been rather apologetic for calling themselves Democrats. This should end, and they should let the world and their neighbors know that they take great pride in their Party.” FDR to Caroline O’Day, January 28, 1922, FDRL.
55. ER, This I Remember 32.
56. FDR to Cox, December 8, 1922; FDR to Byrd, November 21, 1921; FDR to Wood, May 22, 1922. FDRL.
57. Turnley Walker, Roosevelt and the Warm Springs Story 7–9 (New York: A. A. Wyn, 1953). Walker’s account is based on the eyewitness recollection of Basil O’Connor.
58. FDR to Livingston Davis, October 11, 1922.
59. FDR to Black, September 24, 1924.
60. Roosevelt and O’Connor began working together in early 1923 but did not formally announce their partnership until January 1, 1925. See O’Connor to FDR, December 8, 1924, FDRL.
61. FDR to Byron R. Newton, December 20, 1922, FDRL.
62. FDR to Dr. Draper, February 13, 1923, FDRL.
63. ER, This Is My Story 345–346.
64. Quoted in Ward, First-Class Temperament 662.
65. FDR to SDR, March 15, 1923, FDRL.
66. FDR to Carter Glass, March 27, 1923, FDRL.
67. Kathleen Lake to Dr. Lovett, March 30, 1923, Lovett Papers.
68. Lovett examination, May 28, 1923, Lovett Papers.
69. Dr. Draper to Dr. Lovett, February 11, 1924, Lovett Papers.
70. Louis Depew interview, January 5, 1948, FDRL.
71. FDR to John Lawrence, April 30, 1925, FDRL.
72. The most complete depiction of life aboard the Lorooco is provided by Donald S. Carmichael, “An Introduction to the Log of the Lorooco,” 1 The Franklin D. Roosevelt Collector 1–37 (November 1948).
73. FDR to Davis, February, 1924.
74. Franklin, Jr., once told a friend that it was Missy, not Louis Howe, whom he most resented as a youth. He especially resented the time she spent with FDR. “Are you always so agreeable?” he once asked her. “Don’t you ever get mad and flare up? Do you always smile?”
“Missy looked as if she would burst into tears,” he remembered. Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt: A Friend’s Memoir 210 (New York: Doubleday, 1964).
75. Felix Frankfurter, From the Diaries of Felix Frankfurter, Joseph P. Lash, ed., January 18, 1943 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1975). Judge Samuel Rosenman, FDR’s speechwriter, told Frankfurter that he “always regarded Missy as one of the five most important people in the U.S. during the Roosevelt Administration.” Ibid.
76. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 294.
77. Frank Freidel, interview with Frances Perkins, May 1953, FDRL.
78. ER to FDR, February 24, 1924, FDRL.
79. FDR to John Lawrence, April 25, 1925, FDRL.
80. FDR to SDR, postscript to letter originally written March 26, 1926, 2 Roosevelt Letters 479–480.
81. Typewritten copy of statement, FDRL.
82. New York Herald Tribune, April 29, 1924.
83. Frank Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Ordeal 170 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1954).
84. George Herman Ruth to FDR, June 13, 1924, FDRL.
85. Judge Joseph Proskauer interview, Columbia Oral History Project, Columbia University.
86. Ibid.
87. David Burner, “The Election of 1924,” in 2 Running for President: Candidates and Their Images, 1900–1992 125, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., ed. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994).
88. Roosevelt and Shalett, Affectionately, F.D.R. 205.
89. Morgan Hoyt interview, FDRL.
90. Kenneth S. Davis, Invincible Summer: An Intimate Portrait of the Roosevelts Based