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...campaign, Farley shared an ovation in Chicago with the President. The next day Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre came "to tell me that 'they thought it best' " Farley should not appear on a platform with Roosevelt "because of the Tammany situation...
Franklin D. Roosevelt and big, bluff Jim Farley made one of the most effective U.S. political teams of all time. Farley did the spadework; F.D.R. sowed the political and sociological gardens. Then the team fell apart. Last week, 26 months after Roosevelt's death, Big Jim began to explain "Why I Broke with Roosevelt," in Collier's magazine...
...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...
Besides Bradford, the rething Overseers are Winthrop W. Aldrich '07, Arthur A. Ballantine '04, John W. Farley '99, and Robert E. Sherwood...