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Eleanor Roosevelt finally made public reply, in the Ladies' Home Journal, to Jim Farley's public charge, in Collier's, that the Parleys had got a moderately cool shoulder in White House social life. Wrote the ex-First Lady: "Unwittingly in some way I ... seem to have hurt both Mr. and Mrs. Farley. For that I am genuinely sorry . . . but I feel I never treated them any differently. . . ." Being a member of the Cabinet, observed Mrs. Roosevelt, implied that one was considered "a man of parts." She pursued sweetly: "Mr. Farley failed to understand this. His tremendous...
...Farley replied that the President had "permitted, if not encouraged a situation . . . under which he would be nominated unless he refused...
...Well," Mrs. Farley answered, "you're the President, aren't you? All you have to do is tell them you won't run." Roosevelt blinked...
What General Sherman Did. In 1940, he summoned Farley to Hyde Park again...
Then came what to Farley was "the final shock." Roosevelt said: "By the way, Jim, the family is not going to the convention. Undoubtedly I will accept the nomination by radio and will arrange to talk to the delegates before they leave the convention hall after the nomination...