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on the boss - political pressures, personal pressures, as I gathered from Foley, threats of blackmail and various other things. They've all got something on each other or think they have. Just as they pressured Sulzer, so they pressure the boss of Tammany Hall. It's no joke.

Foley said to me, “I just cannot stand those pressures, nor do I wish at this stage of my life - at my age - to take my mind off a really useful service to the people and put it on to the development of purely political opportunism. That's what it has to be. I assure you, my dear Miss Perkins, that even with the highest ideals that you have developed here and that I agree with, I know that I couldn't do it. I couldn't hold Tammany Hall together. If there isn't some gravy, they won't stay together. They'll fight. The fellow that fights hardest and promises the most to the others will win out over me. You can't stay boss of Tammany Hall unless you make those concessions, and I don't want to do it frankly. I don't want to do that. I want to live a decent life. I don't want to be utilized by them. I don't want to be used as a tool by them. Yet I don't want to say no either. I don't know how I could do it. I just don't want to do it and I won't. I'm a good Surrogate and I'm going to stay that way.”

This was his analysis of it. He was determined. I always had the feeling that Foley was saving his own soul at