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...Flynn has the titular responsibility of electing all possible Democrats-good, medium and terrible Democrats-to all possible offices in the land, in one of the toughest years in American history, at a time of considerable national dissatisfaction with the Administration's war effort. But the grind on Ed Flynn comes here: if the Democrats lose he will get all the lumps; if the Democrats win he will get no more reward than a character who brings back kittens to a man who left them to drown...
...which he took over practically his own dead body. After the 1940 Democratic convention, President Roosevelt offered him the post many times-he turned it down every time. One Sunday in August, the President telephoned from Hyde Park, asked him to come up. When he left, Mrs. Flynn warned: "Now remember, you're not going to take the job." Ed Flynn said flatly that this was one thing that even his great & good friend FDR couldn't talk him into. When he entered the house on his return, his wife said: "You don't have to tell...
Deep Purple. The migraine that Ed Flynn has is almost enough to fracture his skull. None of it is of his own making. But the problems that face the Democratic Party in the 1942 elections are many and grave...
...Flynn's main weakness as National Chairman is that he cannot offer the electorate candidates worth electing. In this Ed Flynn typifies the main weakness of both parties in 1942: they have not come forth, in the Time for Greatness, with enough first-rate candidates. Should the Republicans make gains by reason of apathy, they too can claim no moral victory...
...Roosevelt Problem. Today Flynn actually can do little for this party except have his resignation handy. Beyond the management of multifarious little details, such as shipping speakers into hard-fought districts, Flynn must depend mainly on the real chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Franklin Roosevelt...