Part 9 (2/2)

Then ca cable to the President from Col E M House:

Paris, June 12, 1913

THE PRESIDENT Washi+ngton

Damon [code name for McCombs] requests me to say that after he sees present incumbent tomorroill cable you He is much improved

E M HOUSE

Paris, June 18, 1913

JOS P TUMULTY, Washi+ngton

Aet it toe today which was inco will be o k

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Paris, July 6, 1913

J P TUMULTY, Washi+ngton

Accept if no previous arrangement cable at once care Monroe Banquier Paris

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Paris, July 7, 1913

TUMULTY, Washi+ngton

Better wait a little or leave out for another strictly confidential

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By this last e McCombs meant that the President had better wait a little for him to make up his mind, or to select another for the French post, which the President refused to do

The kindest explanation of Mr McCombs' distorted and entirely untruthful story is that his sensitiveon fancied injuries that he had come to believe that what he deposed was true He was sensitive to a pathological degree, jealous, suspicious of everybody, and consumed with ambition to appear as the sole maker of President Wilson politically He is dead, and it would have been pleasanter to keep silent about him I should have remained silent had he not left his embittered manuscript in the hands of friends, with directions to publish it after his death, when those whom he attacks in its various chapters would feel a hesitancy about challenging his state in any way to asperse his memory That he was abnormal was known to all who can and after His suspicions and spites manifested thehable had he not been pitiable The simple fact is that both the nomination and the election of Governor Wilson were in spite of Mr

McCo n, which had to be directed by the assistant chair interference from the chairman's sick room

The full force of McCombs' petty spite, malice, and jealousy was expended upon Mr Williah reputation for his courage and intrepidity in building the famous Manhattan and Hudson tunnels Mr McAdoo, in the early days of Woodrow Wilson's candidacy, took his place at the fore-front of the Wilson forces