Not state but national power was what he had always wanted. He had known for so long what he wanted to be, and what “route” would take him to his far-off goal. A state job—no matter how good—was not on that road; state politics was, he had said, a “dead end.” In the frustration, almost desperation, of his last months with Kleberg, he had almost decided to abandon his chosen road, but, with the NYA appointment, he was back on it and did not intend to leave it again. The NYA job, attractive as it was, was not the main chance for which he was looking. But if the main chance came, he would
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