WASHINGTON
 
 
September 29, 1936.
 
 
 
Dear Mr. President:
 
 
I am handing you a letter that has just come in from Dr. Dodd.
 
 
I do not believe that there is anything to be gained by making a
further effort to obtain a statement from Carter Glass. He has not only
failed to reply to my letter to him of September 2nd, but privately I
hear that he is grouchy about Bullitt, his hatred of whom is said to
have influenced him to make his wretched Hanover speech. He is also
reported to have said he intends to answer my letter only when he "gets
good and ready". I feel pretty sure, as I have told you before, that
mentally he is an old age victim.
 
 
Although everybody seems to think Virginia politically is beyond any
doubt, I have been urged to broadcast a campaign speech from Richmond
and will probably do so early next month. I am so tied up here as to
have little opportunity to know anything beyond what appears in the
newspapers and what is told me by all sorts of people who drop in to
discuss one thing and another, but in some way I sense the fact that
Landon has weakened himself by his recent soeeches and that your
reelection is becoming all the time more certain. This, I believe, will
become steadily more apparent as you carry on your own work in the
campaign which is really being
started only tonight.
 
 
Yours very sincerely,
(signature)
 
 
Enclosure:
Letter from
Dr. Dodd.
 
 
The President
The White House.