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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 1
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MAS. RK: Apprised.
ER: - apprised of just exactly what this man was deius,
gt . even if they scould not reach him through the lew,
*! . through the federal law. It should have been made
_available to all the daily newspapers an3 the radio
stations to give the information out cencerning this
man.
MRS. R: I suppose it should. Ther? is no doutt rbout thet.
I am afraid human nature being what it is, 1¢ is
- awfully hard always to centrol what feopie want tc
, , do. If they want to do it, they find waye of doing
a :.3t, as we learned in Prohibition end et various
.. other times, but I do think you could remove as
- much reason and temptation as possible.
ER: Well, I have one more question in connecticn with
this particular sulject. Where dca infinence berin.
S and where does it end? We read about the people
. _ 7 who sell their influence with government
- departments and then we read also @ littie further
,' ss along that Senators and Congressmen write letters
and urge on organizations like the RFC on behaif
of individudis * that their loany should be
approved. What is -nfluence?
MAS. R: Well, I think it is entirely proper Cor anyone,
whether they are an official or uncfficial, to
draw the attention of a government official
or @ government body to something that comes to
them because it may be a good thing. They may |
believe it is a good thing and sliould te done, tnt
I think the point is that the governuent body
should never feel that they sre obligated to de
something that they don't think that 1s richt
after investigation, and I thin that that is where
the harm comes, that fron certain people like
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