While reading the third part of City of Ambition, the thing that sparked my interest was La Guardia’s campaign for Roosevelt against Willkie. Until this point, La Guardia has been portrayed as a just and fair politician, that is looking out for his constituents. However, in this campaign he becomes extremely confrontational, as he looks for any opportunity to besmirch the public’s view of Willkie. From depicting him as someone who is an agent of big businesses and only looking out for those with capital, to making it a class struggle between the employers and employees, La Guardia would stop at nothing to taint any positive views of Willkie. This is slightly surprising coming from the man who was all about a decent municipal government, unlike Tammany Hall, earlier in the thirties. This seemingly small campaign for Roosevelt is actually a major factor in La Guardia’s next campaign for mayor, as many reformers who had supported him in the past, lost all faith in him as a decent politician.