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...Franklin Roosevelt is a changeable, charming, warmhearted, gullible, formidable man. ". . . When crossed he is hard, stubborn, resourceful, relentless," Moley wrote to his sister Nell in 1932. ". . . He seems quite naturally warm and friendly . . . because he just enjoys the pleasant and engaging role, as a charming woman does. . . . The frightening aspect ... is F. D. R.'s great receptivity. So far as I know he makes no effort to check up on anything I or anyone else has told him. I wonder what would happen if we should selfishly try to put things over...
...Moley's nominal superior in 1933, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, is shown as a singleminded, sincere, intellectually limited man, subjected to a succession of groveling humiliations. A devastating chapter is the account of the torpedoed world Monetary and Economic Conference in London 1933. In it, Author Moley makes out Cordell Hull a simpleton let down by his Chief, the President a pitiable ignoramus "saying two plus two made ten" who didn't know beans about the international money system which he blew sky high...
...Janizary Tom Corcoran, whom Raymond Moley introduced to palace councils, appears as a perennial sophomore. Author Moley blandly notes a private talk with Corcoran. Said Corcoran, explaining how he would get around Franklin Roosevelt's implied promise to put the late Joe Robinson on the Supreme Court: ". . . There aren't any binding promises in politics. There isn't any binding law. You just know that the strongest side wins...
...Moley: "How do you choose a side, as you call...
...Corcoran, begging Moley to help him draft a 1936 campaign speech for the President : "You write the music. He only sings...