Show I Notes of oj a 4 Newspaperman Letter to Woodrow Wilson n from Franklin D D. D Roosevelt My dear Mr President I entirely forgot forget en on Sunday evening to speak to y you yeu u of cf t I personal matter which might coma toms up during my absence the absence the question of my nomination for the Governor Governor- ship of af New York I have bave tried In every way to stop It but some ct of your friends and mine have talked of the possibility of forcing this thI while I am away and of or asking you to encourage me to accept itI itI It ItI I sincerely hope the matter will win not come up I have made my position posU tion entirely clear that my duty lItsIn lies lIts In my present work work not not only my duty to you and the country but butto butto butto to myself If 11 I were at any time timeto to leave the Assistant It could only be for active service Furthermore may I say that I Iam Iam Iam 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 political political po po- job In these times I cannot accept such a nomination at this time with honesty or honor to my my- self I think I have put off oa all danger dan dan- d danger ger of it but in hi case you are ap up appealed appealed pealed to I want you to know what I feel feel and and I know too that you will win understand and that you will not listen to the appeal Regardless of what yon you have bave heard and read never wanted 3rd Term A few months before his 2nd Term was about to end Mrs Roosevelt invited kin of Ed Flynn to spend a night In the White House She especially wanted their two tots to sleep there so that they never will forget torget the thrill of it Considering the people we do r ct really know who have been here she said in hi effect I want the children children chil dren iren to be with us for a a night and and this positively ely Is their very very last I After Alter a press conference In his White House office a reporter told the President of a story that had bad come in the mail Did he mind Its publication It was at the Gridiron Dinner said better clear it with some of the boys who were there A famed Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican Senator it appears was waa teasing about his lucky Inaugural Inaugural Inaugural In In- augural suit If 11 you run for e a third term heckled the Senator let me borrow that suit and Ill Til run nm against you and wink told him he couldn't let him borrow his lucky suit Because Because UBe Be Be cause I may need it myself tt You mean was the retort that you ARE going to run again I mean said Mr Roosevelt wearily that I may need It my my- self I do not consider It my Inaugural Inaugural Inaugural In In- augural suit It Is b my funeral my-funeral funeral suit Another of the favorite stories stories stories sto sto- ries de deals ls with the White House House visitor visitor visitor tor who remarked Mr President how in the world did you acquire re rew w such guch h with patience with all the bores your yoU you i meet In is a day grimly replied You tc- tc QUIre patience after youve you've spent nt two years yeara learning how to wiggle Jour big toe again Men who were trusted by PresIdent President President dent Roosevelt were never frisked when they were admitted to office The Secret Servicemen knew his hb friends of course One newly newly newly new new- ly appointed agent however took no chances A newspaper man he be had never seen before and who hadn't held his White House pass hi high h enough for the agent to see lee I was suddenly jerked out of the crowd swiftly marching in for the press confab The newspaper man roan when he got his bearings a again was wu irked no end Later alone with the President he kidded about It I thought everybody down dOWD here he said knew who was on oa your team Well replied the President it Is comforting to know i i that the boys are careful Not so careful said the visitor displaying a loaded pistol I t Among one reporters reporter's thrills w was hearing him guffaw When the gag gat was funny tunny he howl The t vaudeville comics would call It a belly laugh The reporter thinks too he is one of the few who ever saw him bim weep It B happened when ex ex Cong Lambertson Lambert Lambert- son and others were criticizing the war records of his sons Mf Mr r Roosevelt was miserable about a Is I letter that came that morning I r E Efrom i from one of them It concluded r Po Pop p sometimes I really hope bope oc k jl of us gets killed so that maybe f they'll stop picking on the rest reit of 01 i f the family I When be he read ft It t lower lip started to quiser j i and the tears came r I This Republic Is governed by to the II L will of the people That exi expressed will has been interrupted by the w 4 1 of ot God in hi the passing of ot President 1 a Roosevelt d Now President Truman the d due dui 1 39 constitutional constitutional constitutional- choice of the Arne t t e lean ican people Is entitled to the er I loyalty and cooperation as Co gym I mander In Chief tit t At Ats This is not a time for o of ot effort On the contrary thIs s neW ne s unexpected and grievous cha chato chan j to the American people is a chi 4 tl lenge engo to Democracy itself f a |