The records of the Wisconsin Willkie-for-President Committee were kept by Willard Smith, secretary of the committee. Smith, a Madison newspaper man, was relatively close to the political sentiment of the state, and was able to give advice to the national headquarters as to the “hot” issues in the state. He was responsible for writing most of the press releases issued by the State Committee, and probably ghost wrote the speeches of many of the local speakers endorsing Wendell Willkie.
