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Billings in the open automobile, out of doors in the fog, during the time we
talked. It was a distressing interview.
He is ready to quarrel with the President because of his lack of action
in the Suffrage movement. He told the story of his interview with the President
and it was not a pleasant thing to hear. He feels that the President, and per-
haps rightly, could bring about national suffrage almost immediately if he was
sincerely for it. The President was inclined to argue the matter and stated
that he did not feel it was right to go to Congress and demand it of it. In
reply to this, Dudley asked him why he considered it right to demand of Congress
practically all of the important legislation he had gotten through. The Presi-
dent made a mistake in giving such a reason, he should have stated the truth.
Whenever the President gives <del/> evasive or foolish reasons-- reasons I
know are not the real ones, I never argue with him as Dudley did, but I simply
cease talking. The President understands that I know he is talking nonsense,
and my method is far more effective.
Dudley's action has led, I am afraid, to a breach-- a breach that will
widen as time goes on. It is a pity that a man of Dudley's remarkable talents
should not <add>use them</add> <del/> to better advantage. He is temperamentally unable to do
sustained work. He wishes to resign at once. I urged him not to do so for
the present. In demanding my reasons, I thought it would be better for him and
better for the President that there should be no apparent breach. He gave me
no definite promise.
I have a letter from S. R. Bertron, one of the Russian Commission,
which is a part of the diary.
I sent Sir Horace Plunkett a cable today as follows.
"Hearty congratulations." He has just been elected Chairman of the Irish
Convention in Dublin.
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Billings in the open automobile, out of doors in the fog, during the time we
talked. It was a distressing interview.
He is ready to quarrel with the President because of his lack of action
in the Suffrage movement. He told the story of his interview with the President
and it was not a pleasant thing to hear. He feels that the President, and per-
haps rightly, could bring about national suffrage almost immediately if he was
sincerely for it. The President was inclined to argue the matter and stated
that he did not feel it was right to go to Congress and demand it of it. In
reply to this, Dudley asked him why he considered it right to demand of Congress
practically all of the important legislation he had gotten through. The Presi-
dent made a mistake in giving such a reason, he should have stated the truth.
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