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Tumulty. McAdoo believes that <sic>despatches</sic> being sent out from Washington un-
friendly to him certainly emanate from Tumulty. One has just appeared in the
New York World laying the result of the New York defeat to McAdoo's "amateur" ac-
tivities. I told him that McAdoo thought Tumulty too near the interests. One
of his closest friends was Otto Carmicheal, who is Dan Reid's secretary. The
President did not know who Reid was. He said a Mr. Reid had come to see him and
he wondered if he was the man.
In talking of this the President became flushed and excited and wanted to
know if McAdoo had gone crazy. That kind of talk sounded to him more like Mc-
Combs than McAdoo. His face became grey and he looked positively sick. I was
unable to lift him out of this depression before bedtime. He said he was broken
in spirit by Mrs. Wilson's death, and was not fit to be President because he did
not think straight any longer, and had no heart in the things he was doing. He
asked if I had noticed it. I said I had not. He hoped I would talk to both
McAdoo and Burleson and straighten out New York appointments and not let them
worry him about them. I promised to do the best I could, but I advised appoint-
ing the cleanest, ablest, most progressive men he could find and not let anyone
influence him in making machine appointments for the purpose of getting any furth-
er measures through Congress.
Since Burleson and McAdoo have the responsibility of getting administration
measures through Congress, they naturally wish such help as they can get from the
President through appointments. I am worried for the reason that he shows re-
luctance in going to the bottom of <del>a</del> situations of this sort. He should get the
truth and have it over with.
Before I went to bed I tried to brace him up by telling him what great
work he had to do in foreign affairs, but it was useless.
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