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MARY FREDERICKSON:

How did you feel about what had preceded? I mean, did you sort of have good feelings about the Progressive party and the Wallace effort and your participation in it? Was that overriding, or were you sort of . . . were you ever down about what had happened? Was it personally strengthening or was it a damaging thing personally?

MARY PRICE ADAMSON:

The whole experience has been strengthening for me and I'll make a statement about that. But . . .oh, there was something else I was going to say before I said that and I've forgotten, but beginning with my activity in the trade union movement in New York in the thirties and my contact with all of these various things, I didn't do any of it for financial reasons or self-aggrandizement, but the whole experience has made a difference in my kind of life and it has made it worthwhile for me. I'm a different kind of person than I would have been if I had grown up on the farm in North Carolina or if I had gotten some kind of office job and married as one might have expected. I can't regret the trials and tribulations and so forth, because I feel that my life has been a lot more interesting for me and worth a little bit. I'm glad to have participated. Oh, what I was going to say was that by that time I had made up my mind that in the class struggle that goes on, I'm on the side of the working class. I don't want to be rich. I don't want to be a big shot, I 'm glad to do what I can to make this a better . . .and I'm a patriot. I'm a southern patriot and I'm a U.S.A. patriot. So, I feel strongly about these things and am glad to do what I can.