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He stood up and took whatever came and carried his burden and always could think of a way to solve the family problems, even when he was a little boy. I had to rely on him.”

It was that curious quality of her seeing through from his childhood, when he bucked up, took the responsibility, did what needed to be done and had a practical solution to things, clear up to the time when he had been elected Governor. I never heard her claim that anything was her bringing up or that her training had done anything at all to him. He was that kind of a fellow and he was born that way as far as she could see. She always could rely on him. He would always tell her the truth. He would always look after the other children. Before his father died and he went to work at eleven, he could always be sent to the store with money, buy the groceries, come back and give you the right change. He wasn't a harum-scarum boy. It was that kind of reminiscence of him that interested me. Apparently he was born with that kind of mentality and that kind of character. I think association with a woman like his mother surely had something to do with confirming him in these traits and qualities, because she too was one of those women who bore her burden and met the circumstances without complaint. I once heard Al Smith say about his mother, “I never heard her complain. With all she went through I never heard her complain.”