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86. Barkley had a remarkable capacity to ridicule: “Dr. [Nicholas Murray] Butler condemns [the Republican plank] because it is dry; Senator Borah because it is wet, and the American people condemn it because it is neither.” (Ironically, Barkley had been one of the chief sponsors of the Eighteenth Amendment.) For the text of Barkley’s keynote see the Proceedings of the 1932 Democratic National Convention 17–39.
87. “The Great Prohibition Poll’s Final Report,” Literary Digest, April 30, 1932.
88. New York Herald Tribune, June 7, 1932.
89. The New York Times, June 10, 1932. Of the 934 votes for repeal, 499½ came from Roosevelt delegates. For the roll-call vote, see Proceedings of the 1932 Democratic National Convention 188–189. Also see Peel and Donnelly, The 1932 Campaign 100.
90. Flynn, You’re the Boss 90, 93.
91. Arthur Mullen, Western Democrat 268 (New York: Wilfred Funk, 1940).
92. Flynn, You’re the Boss 100.
93. The New York Times, July 1, 1932.
94. William Allen White, column, The New York Times, July 1, 1932.
95. Farley, Behind the Ballots 138.
96. Ibid. 140.
97. Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt 70–71.
98. Ibid. 142.
99. Mullen, Western Democrat 275–276.
100. Farley, Behind the Ballots 143.
101. Flynn, You’re the Boss 101.
102. Flynn reports that Long shook his fist at Pat Harrison, but Farley credits Harrison with a yeoman effort to hold Mississippi for FDR. No one doubts that Long shook his fist, but it is more likely that the face into which it was shaken belonged to Conner. Flynn, You’re the Boss 101; compare Farley, Behind the Ballots 143.
103. Flynn, You’re the Boss 101.
104. George E. Allen, Presidents Who Have Known Me 55–56 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1950).
105. Farley, Behind the Ballots 144–145.
106. Hull, 1 Memoirs 153–154.
107. Brice Clagett, Memorandum, Personal and Confidential, February 22, 1933. Mr. Clagett, McAdoo’s law partner and son-in-law, was staying with McAdoo in his penthouse suite at Sherman House and was privy to the McAdoo-Roper discussion.
108. Daniel Roper, Fifty Years in Public Life 259–260 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1941).
109. Bascom N. Timmons, Garner of Texas 165–166 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948).
110. Thomas M. Storke, California Editor 321–325 (Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1958).
111. Farley, Behind the Ballots 151.
112. Moley, After Seven Years 30.
113. Proceedings of the 1932 Democratic National Convention 325–327.
114. Ibid. 329.
115. Ibid. 332.
116. Baltimore Evening Sun, July 5, 1932. The journalist Elmer Davis, writing in Harper’s, believed the Democrats had nominated “the man who would probably make the weakest President of the dozen aspirants.” Veteran Washington correspondent Charles Willis Thompson quipped, “The Democrats have nominated nobody quite like him since Franklin Pierce.” Davis, “The Collapse of Politics,” 165 Harper’s 388; Thompson, “Wanted: Political Courage,” ibid. 726–727 (1932).
117. FDR was the first American candidate to utilize the airplane, but not the first on the world stage. In April 1932, in his runoff presidential campaign against Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, Adolf Hitler barnstormed Germany in a Junkers trimotor plane, very similar to the one in which FDR flew to Chicago. Hitler’s campaign (“Hitler über Deutschland”) was reported extensively in the American press, and it is inconceivable that FDR was unaware of it. (See The New York Times, April 3, 7, 1932.) Hitler lost to Hindenburg, 13.4 million–19.4 million, but following parliamentary elections in November was asked by Hindenburg to form a government (January 30, 1933). Joachim C. Fest, Hitler 320