Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wrote Farley: "I bristled with indignation." He was told that the President thought he was nursing presidential aspirations for 1940. Roosevelt, he said, found fault with everyone he "suspected" of wanting to be President. "They were either too old or too young; too ambitious or too unknown, too conservative or too radical, or too poor in health or too lacking in personality...
...celebrate the overwhelming 1936 victory, which Farley had predicted, the Democratic National Committee staged a testimonial dinner for him. Publicity Chief Charles Michelson wanted to reproduce on the dinner program a letter from Roosevelt thanking Farley for his services. Wrote Farley: "I told him [Michelson] I hadn't received such a letter since 1930. Charley growled that, knowing Roosevelt, he wasn't surprised to hear it, but he decided to demand a predated letter of gratitude. This turned up a few days later, and Charley brought it in with a wry smile. It read...
...When Majority Leader Joe Robinson died, Roosevelt assured Farley that there would be no White House intervention in the fight between Mississippi's Pat Harrison and Kentucky's "Dear Alben" Barkley for Robinson's job. On the way to Arkansas for the funeral, Farley duly told both men what Roosevelt had said...
After the funeral, he returned to Washington and his Mayflower Hotel apartment. Sometime after midnight the phone rang. Farley continued...
...first real break in "principle" came with Roosevelt's "disastrous attempt to purge the Democratic Party of those who had opposed his will." Said Farley: "I could not and did not go along with him. . . . I believe that deep down inside, he never forgave me for putting party welfare above the personal allegiance he considered...