want and understand--the kind of
President the people would sweep in unspeakably into the White House when
they saw him, no matter what any politician said, I am inclined to
believe it would be found--when the book by the hundred million people
was out, that our people feel on the whole that we could not have
anything better in our country for our next President than a man who
would be a lawyer backwards.

What the platform of personality we want our next President to have
amounts to, is this--Know everything a lawyer knows. Have everything a
lawyer has--and just turn it around and use it the other way and be
another kind of man about it.

The fate of America and the fate of the world may be said to be turning
to-day on the degree during the next four years, during the next
President's administration, the American people and all groups of the
people, stop believing weakly what they want to believe and face the
facts about themselves.

In order to be efficient, in order to be free or even to have enough to
eat, millions of American men and women of all groups and classes of the
people have got to be capable and show that they are capable of changing
their minds about themselves.

Everything we are hoping to do turns upon our recognizing as a people,
standing out from the rest and pushing forward to lead us, men who know
more than most of us know, men who are practiced in keeping their own
minds open and can therefore open ours.

Instead of having for the next President of this country a man who braces
people, who tightens people up in their convictions, or who drives the
old beliefs they want to believe further down into them and makes them
believe them harder, we are going to put in our demand for a President
who is the engineer of the will of the people, who draws people out, who
has the common sense, the reality, the sense of humor and the humanness
to look facts and folks in the eyes, who keeps people on all sides who
have dealings with him from being fooled about themselves, a man who
makes people real when they are with him, who makes them when they even
think of him, real with themselves and real with one another, and real in
politics.

I mean by a man's being real in politics, being a politician backwards,
keeping open to facts acting and preferring to act as children and strong
men act, with the deepness and directness of the child.

The hundred million people in the book they would write if they had ti