Governor Hamilton is quoted as saying about this time: “After all, our people are doing about as well as a reasonable man ought to expect. Politicians must have their `explanations' and their `records'; they must be allowed to retreat gracefully and to fall gently; but the vast majority of them are all right at heart. They must have time.” Truman to Johnson, MS. in Johnson Papers; see also in Senate Exec. Docs., 1st. Sess., 39th Cong., Vol. II, No. 43.
