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3. Frank Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny 341 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1990).
4. Chicago Daily News, July 16, 1940.
5. Roosevelt phoned Farley Monday morning, July 15, and elliptically suggested that Farley withdraw. Jim Farley’s Story 271–272 (New York: Whittlesey House, 1948).
6. Ibid. 274–275.
7. Quoted in Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 619 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1971). Ed Flynn, who had superseded Farley as FDR’s principal political adviser, wrote that the Democratic leaders considered Hopkins an amateur. “While they had nothing against him personally, they felt that he, representing the President, directly lowered their prestige.” Edward J. Flynn, You’re the Boss 156 (New York: Viking Press, 1947).
8. Roosevelt wrote the statement in pencil and transmitted it to James Byrnes, who convinced Walsh and Wheeler to go along. 2 F.D.R.: His Personal Letters 1048, Elliott Roosevelt, ed. (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950).
9. Harold L. Ickes, 3 The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes 245 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955).
10. The text of Ickes’s telegram is ibid. 249–250.
11. Frances Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew 131–132 (New York: Viking, 1946) (FDR’s emphasis supplied by Miss Perkins).
12. Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember 214 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949).
13. Ibid. 215.
14. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 620.
15. Farley, Jim Farley’s Story 283.
16. July 16, 1940, 9 Personal Papers and Addresses 292. Roosevelt’s disavowal was strikingly similar to the statement of “Uncle Ted” to the Republican convention in 1900 announcing he was not a candidate for the vice presidency (which of course he was):
In view of the revival of the talk of myself as a Vice-Presidential candidate, I have this to say. It is impossible too deeply to express how touched I am by the attitude of those delegates, who have wished me to take the nomination.… I understand the high honor and dignity of the office, an office so high and so honorable that it is well worthy of the ambition of any man in the United States. But while appreciating all this to the full, I nevertheless feel most deeply that the field of my best usefulness to the public and to the party is in New York State; and that, if the party should see fit to renominate me for Governor, I can in that position help the National ticket as in no other way. I very earnestly hope and ask that every friend of mine in this Convention respect my wish and my judgment in this matter.
Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt 764 (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979).
17. Chicago Daily News, July 17, 1940.
18. “It was a job right up my alley,” Garry told Time. “I figured out a lot of my own angles.… I’m just an ordinary lug who loves the game of politics.” Garry’s day job involved keeping 3,800 miles of sewers in working order. “First thing when you get up in the morning you come in and see me. You don’t know it but that’s me you’re visiting.” Time, July 29, 1940. Also see Kenneth S. Davis, FDR: Into the Storm 597 (New York: Random House, 1993).
19. For Hull’s description of FDR’s overtures, see 1 The Memoirs of Cordell Hull 860–861 (New York: Macmillan, 1948).
20. Charles Peters, Five Days in Philadelphia 145 (New York: PublicAffairs, 2005).
21. “He’s not a mystic, he’s a philosopher,” FDR told a skeptical Farley. “He’ll help people think.” Farley, Jim Farley’s Story 294. Also see Samuel I. Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt 213 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952).
22. Quoted in Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins 179 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948).
23. Time, July 29, 1940; Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember 216.
24. Quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 623.
25. Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time 133 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994). For the full text of ER’s address, see the Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention, 1940 238–239 (Washington, D.C.: Democratic National Committee, 1940).
26. New York Daily News, July 19, 1940; Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 623.
27. Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt 215.