Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-05-11
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Letter to Woodrow Wilson from
Franklin d. Roosevelt: my dear
MIR. President: entirely forgot on
Sunday evening to speak to you of
personal matter which might come
up during my absence-the question
of my nomination for the Governor
ship of New York. I have tried in
every way to stop it, but some of
your friends and mine have talked
of the possibility of forcing this
while l am away, and of asking
you to encourage me to accept it.
II sincerely hope the matter will
not come up. I have made my posi-
ton entirely clear that my duty lies
in my present work-not only my
duty to you and the country, but
to myself. If I we're at any time
to leave the Assistant Secretaryship
1t could only be for active service.
Furthermore, may I say that I
am very certain that it would be a
grave mistake for either you or any
member of the Administration to
ask that I give up war work for
what is frankly very much of a po-
AeASoA yoD III IllSo6 tllllSS. CdIlIlOI
accept such a nomination at this
time with honesty or honor to my
self. I think I have put off all dan
ger OF it, but in case you are ap-
pealed to, want you to know what
I iceland know too that you will
understand and that you will not
listen to the appeal"
Regardless Of what you have
heard and read, FDR never wanted
3rd Term. =. A few months before
his End Term was about to end, Mrs.
Roosevelt invited kin of Ed Flynn
to spend night in the White House.
She especially wanted their two tots
to sleep there $50 that they never
will forget the thrill of it, :.
considering the people 1--WE do not
really Know who have been here"
she said in effect, 81 want the chill
dren to be with us for a highland
this positively is their very, very
last chance!'
After a press conference in his
White House office a reporter told
the President of a story that had
come in the mail. Did he mind its
publication? 1T was at the
Gridiron Dinner" said FDR. you'd
better clear it with some of the boys
who were there" A famed Re-
publican Senator, it appears, was
teasing FDR about his lucky In
augural suit" IF you run for a
third term" heckled the Senator,
"let me borrow that suit, and I'll
run against you and win!" E.
FDR told him he couldn't let him
borrow his "lucky" suit "Be-
cause I may need it myself"
"You mean," was the retort, THAT
you ARE going to run again."
II mean," said Mr.. Roosevelt
YEARLY, "that 1 may need it my
self. I do not consider it my In
augural suit. 1t is my-funeral suit"
Another of the fav0rite FDR sto-
ries deals with the White House visi-
tor who remarked: "Mr. President,
how in the world did you acquire
such patience-with all the bores you
meet in day."
FDR grimly replied: "You &C.
quire patience after you've spent
two years learning how to wiggle
your big toe again."
Men who were trusted by Presi-
dent Roosevelt were never frisked
when they were admitted to FDR's
office. The Secret Servicemen knew
his friends, of course One new
ly appointed agent, however, took no
chances. A newspaper man he
had never seen before (and who
hadn't held his White House pass
high enough for the agent to see)
was suddenly jerked out of the
crowd swiftly marching in for the
press confab. The newspaper man
(when he got his bearings again)
was irked no end. Later, alone
with the President, he kidded about
it. II thought everybody down
here" he said, "knew who was on
your team!" "Well," replied the
President, sit is comforting to know
that the boys are CAREFUL
"Not so careful" said the visitor,
displaying loaded pistol.
Among one reporters thrills was
hearing him guffaw. When the gag
was funny he would howl. The
vaudeville comics would call it "a
belly laugh" The reporter
thinks, too, he is one of the few
who ever saw him weep. It
happened when ex-Cong. Lambert
son and others were criticizing the
war records of his sons. Mr..
Roosevelt was miserable about a
letter that came chat morning)
from one of them. 1t concluded:
Pop, sometimes ! really hope one
of us gets killed so that maybe
they'll stop picking on the rest of
the family!" When he read it,
FDR's lower lip started to CULVER,
and the tears came.
This Republic is governed by the
will of the people. That expressed
will has been interrupted by the will