President laughs again when asked ‘the’ question
Washington – (June 27)
President Roosevelt laughed off the fourth term question again today.
A reporter asked at his news conference if there was anything he could say today on the Democratic candidate for President.
The President threw his head back and laughed, then turned to the questioner and said, “So they saddled that one on you today.”
It had been some time since “the” question had been asked. Some correspondents, knowing the President’s way of sometimes blanketing Republican convention news with major news of his own, had thought that the eve of Governor Dewey’s nomination might strike him as an opportune time to make his announcement.
But Mr. Roosevelt apparently thought otherwise.