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(Continued from Page 1) dress. The president was obviously failing, Herndon remembers. He was all right reading the prepared portions of the speech, but slurred when he went extemporaneous. The president’s family was sitting in the next gallery, Herndon says and he glanced at them when Roosevelt's speech became garbled; Eleanor shook her head sadly.
No one was surprised when Roosevelt died shortly afterwards. But^ in comparing the times of national mourning, Herndon says Roosevelt's funeral was the most “heart-rending.” The people “felt closer to him, particularly the little people, so that it was like losing a member of the family."
Herndon first saw FDR at the Washington National Cathedral the day after his first inauguration in litdd. “I opened the door for him,” Herndon remembers, “and met what is most undoubtedly one of the most magnetic and awesome personalities of this century. There is no way to describe the magnetism. He w’as a dynamic administrator. He exuded confidence. He was the prime example of the right man at the right place at the right time. The only man who came close to his magnetism was Winston
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