Roosevelt raised everyone’s spirits by his robust response on learning that his opponent was to be Lindbergh rather than a senator of the stature of Taft or a prosecutor as aggressive as Dewey or a bigtime lawyer as smooth and handsome as Willkie. When awakened at four A.M. to be told the news, he was said to have predicted from his White House bed, “By the time this is over, the young man will be sorry not only that he entered politics but that he ever learned to fly.”
