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31. Alfred E. Smith, Up to Now 314 (New York: Viking Press, 1929).
32. Public Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Forty-eighth Governor of the State of New York: 1929 40 (Albany, N.Y.: J. B. Lyon Co., 1930).
33. “I am not an ‘Urban leader,’ ” FDR wrote the editor of the Mitchell, South Dakota, Republican in April 1931. “I was born and brought up and have always made my home on a farm in Dutchess County.” FDRL.
34. For an extensive review of FDR’s agricultural program, see the chapter “Parity for the Farmer,” in Bernard Belluch, Franklin D. Roosevelt as Governor of New York 76–102 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1955).
35. FDR, 3 Personal Letters 24.
36. The New York Times, July 5, 1929.
37. Ibid. July 8, 1929.
38. Howe deleted the persiflage before the statement was released to the press. The final version stated simply that FDR was not a candidate. 3 Personal Letters 40–41.
39. Thomas Wilson, Fluctuations in Income and Employment: With Special Reference to Recent American Experience 118 (New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1948). Also see David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear 34–42 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
40. The New York Times, October 26 (Hoover), November 22 (Rockefeller), December 11 (Schwab), 1929. John Edgerton, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, said, “I can observe little on the horizon today to give us undue or great concern.” For a compilation of business predictions, see Review of Reviews (January 1930).
41. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Statistical History of the United States 283, 292–295 (Stamford, Conn.: Fairfield Publishers, 1965).
42. Ibid. 140–141.
43. FDR to Howe, December 1, 1929, 3 Personal Letters 92. The day after the market dipped on October 23, Roosevelt wired The New York Times from Warm Springs: “Do not know detailed conditions but firmly believe fundamental industrial and trade conditions are sound.” FDRL.
44. The New York Times, December 11, 1929.
45. “All the evidences,” said Hoover, “indicated that the worst effects of the crash upon employment will have been past during the next sixty days.” The New York Times, January 21, 1930; Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew 95–96.
46. FDR statement, March 29, 1930, Public Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Forty-eighth Governor of the State of New York, 1930 506 (Albany, N.Y.: J. B. Lyon Co., 1934).
47. “I am convinced we have now passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover,” said Hoover. Herbert Hoover, 1 State Papers and Other Public Writings 289–296, William Starr Myers, ed. (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1934).
48. The New York Times, April 27, 1930.
49. Ibid.
50. FDR to Nicholas Roosevelt, May 19, 1930, FDRL.
51. FDR to Hollins N. Randolph, July 16, 1930, FDRL.
52. Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt 45.
53. Public Papers of Governor Roosevelt 1930 835–837; The New York Times, November 2, 1930.
54. FDR received 1,770,342 (59.1%) votes to Tuttle’s 1,045,231 (34.9%). Professor Robert Paris Carroll of Syracuse University, running on the Prohibitionist ticket, received 181,000 (6.0%) votes.
55. Quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 336.
56. Ida Tarbell, in the Delineator (October 1931).
57. Roy Jenkins, Franklin Delano Roosevelt 61 (New York: Henry Holt, 2003).
58. Marion Dickerman interview, Columbia Oral History Project, Columbia University.
59. Joseph P. Lash, Love, Eleanor 111–123 (New York: Doubleday, 1982). Also see Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 340–343. In A World of Love, published in 1984, Lash concedes, “There may have been an affair” (New York: Doubleday, 297n).
60. Cook, 1 Eleanor Roosevelt 429, 442.
61. James Roosevelt with Bill Libby, My Parents: A Differing View 110–111 (Chicago: Playboy Press, 1976). David B. Roosevelt, ER’s grandson and the author of Grandmere: A Personal History of Eleanor Roosevelt, accepts James’s judgment. (New York: Warner Books, 2002, 139–141).
62. Cook, 1 Eleanor Roosevelt 435. In 1937, when ER published This Is My Story, the first volume of her memoirs, she ordered