ABSTRACT
Most of the work had been done by devoted and efficient aides, like John M. Hancock, and Franklin D. Roosevelt had boasted of large savings and improved relations with the Allies as a result of his trip. Roosevelt's real problems would come from a Congress hot for scandals to exploit in an election year. He sought to steal a march on them with his own broad, sharp criticisms of wartime administration. Roosevelt entrained for San Francisco to the music of another newspaper boom for him as a Presidential candidate. He was wise to scoff at it, but anything could happen in the undisciplined open convention which gathered there. Roosevelt was strangely quiet. He did grab headlines by wresting New York's banner from its guardians and joining in the wild demonstrations for President Wilson, but he left the fight against the unit rule to others.
