Congratulating Brownell on Dewey's nomination "I really think the best thing Tom could do would be to go away somewhere in the deep woods of Wisconsin or California, perhaps to the Bohemian Grove, and stay away until after Labor Day. You are old enough perhaps to remember a candidate rl~ h~1 named Willkie, who began talking before he left Philadelphia, continued talking all through the dog days, and by September first had successfully talked himself out of election.

"Another point on which I have doubts is the program of the special train going into every state. This is horse-and-buggy campaigning - pre-newspaper, pre-radio, and pre-television. I'd rather had ten marvellous speeches by a rested and confident candidate, all carefully planned for the radio and the news reels, than a thousand back platform chats anyone of which could produce an embarrassing slip.

"The American people don't really get interested in a political campaign until six or seven weeks before the voting.

"Remember Aristedes who was always running for office on a noble platform, and who was banished by the Greeks just becallse they got so sick of reading about him all the time and hearing him called The Just."