ABSTRACT
Franklin D. Roosevelt had hardly reached Warm Springs before Smith was planning a new and critical job for him—the fight for the Governorship of New York. The New York leaders spoiled this move at once. Herbert Lehman could be nominated for Lieutenant Governor, they said, and could act for Roosevelt during legislative sessions. The Governor insisted that Roosevelt was needed; Lehmans full-time help was promised; Raskob personally undertook to arrange financing for Warm Springs. If the Smith forces had bargained for a name and a reputation, they got a candidate and a leader. Roosevelt bounded into activity as if he had never entertained a doubt. Roosevelt would have none of this. In a round of New York City speeches, he unveiled his program: a constitutional amendment committing the State to public power development; reform of the criminal codes and of local government; scientific study of the State's agricultural problems.
