he had so recently been a democrat and this is personified at one point by a chance encounter wendell willkie had with a former senator from indiana, james watson, former senate majority leader who said wendell, you are a nice fellow but i don't much like your politics and wendell willkie said that is true, i was a democrat until recently, but i am now a republican, i have seen the light and i plan to win this nomination. back in indiana, we don't let her lead the choir on the first night. they all got over it eventually. wendell willkie really distinguished himself during the election, he took a courageous stand in favor of the first peacetime draft in american history, roosevelt did too and they got it enacted but where he really showed in my view after the election, he said we only have one president now, franklin roosevelt, and he has my support and they have a famous dinner together just the two of them the night before roosevelt was inaugurated for the third time and roosevelt sent a handwritten message to church sylvia wendell willkie who was on his way to london. wendell willkie was s

we named one of the characters from the 1930s wendell willkie tell the story. that required a lot of -- that's the novel lies part because he has to say chico i remember when and of course i don't have that. i know a lot about wilkie and i know he went from thinking one thing to another over the course of the 1930s so i was comfortable doing it. that was a real difference for most standard adaptations sort of like "wizard of oz" when you make it read like the book. it's the same kind of question. that too took time. >> amity you showed the one page talking about schemes with fdr. in that the lower two panels fdr is shown in silhouette and i noticed in the book that there is a lot of fdr either in silhouette or not shown completely. is that sort of like a throwback to win in that time period in the movie you never see the president fully or acidic commentary on fdr being inscrutable and why there's like a papier-mÂchÉ sphinx for portraying fdr over the museum for such a talkative guy? >> he's just finishing a book about 1933 which talks about what's happening in

up going in another direction with the book, and we made one of the characters from the 1930s wendell willkie. he's is the superhero of this book tell the story, and that required a lot of -- i don't know, that's the novelized part because he has to say, gee, i remember when -- and, of course, i don't have that in a transcript, him saying it. i know a lot about willkie, and i know he went from thinking one thing to another over the course of the 1930s, so i was comfortable doing it, but that was a real difference from most standard adaptations that we actually a bit, you know, sort of like wizard of oz, if when you make the movie, is it like the book? it's the same kind of question. that, too, took time. >> amity, you showed the one page with rex tugwell talking about make work schemes to fdr. and in that the lower two panels fdr's shown in silhouette, and i noticed in the book that there's a lot of fdr either in silhouette or not shown completely. is that sort of like a throwback to when in that time period in a movie you would never see president fully, or is it a commentary on, the dr -- o