ABSTRACT
The campaign began in Chicago, with Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech at the National Committee Dinner, with the long midnight conference in which Roosevelt outlined to Raymond Moley the broad dimensions of the strategy. In Louis McHenry Howe's personal headquarters the emphasis was on anonymity. The daily news digests flowed inexorably out to Roosevelt and all the key figures of the campaign. Roosevelt ruled firmly for an aggressive, coast-to-coast appeal. He would make himself the symbol of action and hope—to create the confidence that he would need when the battle was won. At Hyde Park on election eve Roosevelt was jubilant over the coming victory, suddenly sober at the monumental challenge he had worked so long to face. Grace Howe had come down from Fall River, fresh from her months of work as a director of the Roosevelt-John Garner Committee and a key worker in the local campaign.
