The ties between President Roosevelt and his mother wen particularly
close, and it is not surprising that, important the President's pending broadcast was, he should have decid to postpone it in consequence of her death. I am not s whether she predicted her son's elevation to the Presidenc, but I have just heard of an Englishwoman (originally Scottish, but a wife takes her husband's nationality) who did. " Roost- velt," Lady Oxford said recently to a friend, "told me nearl twenty years ago that he would never do anything, as he 01 paralysed in both his legs. I replied 'A man doesn't think 011 his legs. Some day you may be President of the United States.'" Lady Oxford admitted that the prediction was orill half-serious, but she may claim to have recognised that the mall had the qualities for the office.
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