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He was a trial to Mrs. Moskowitz, although she kept close to him always, and did after the break between Smith and Roosevelt. Raskob was still faithful and friendly to Al Smith to his dying day. I'm not sure that it wasn't Raskob who promoted the idea that the Empire State Building needed a manager. I think he was the one who had the big money in the Empire State Building.

Norman Davis was active in the 1924 pre-nomination campaign. He had had a very respectable following. I use “respectable” in both senses, meaning a large one and a very intelligent one. He had been pretty close to Woodrow Wilson. I forget what his posts were, but he was official adviser, close friend and very loyal. Whereas, John W. Davis was merely a Democrat from West Virginia who had come to New York and made good. He was well connected in the South. He didn't have any connections in the North, but he went to New York and made good in the practise of law. He got himself in a good firm. There was no emotional conflict about John W. Davis. He had always been a loyal Democrat. He had always contributed to the campaign.

As a campaigner he was frightfully colorless, but he's not a colorless personality when you know him. It was a surprise to people who thought we had nominated an intelligent and effective man to find him so colorless in the campaign,