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the business. About two years from now you do this. I'll tell you just what to do. I'm going to rest a little. I'm not going to be there every morning at eight o'clock. You can do that. I'll come in about ten, but I'll tell you what to do.”

I remember feeling at this time that Smith was thinking of Roosevelt as he might of a grown son whom he loved, and for whom he had the highest hopes, but who he expected to do business at the old stand and in the same way. He expected to tell him how to do business. He had promised Roosevelt that he would help him. To help him meant to Al Smith to show him where to hang his hat, how to fix up the papers, and what to do about this. Obviously, Roosevelt couldn't have thought up a program for the year 1929-'30. How could he? He'd never had anything to do with New York State. Here, Al had a program all thought up that rested on what he'd done in '28, what he'd done in '27, what he'd done in '26, and so on all the way back. He knew just what ought to be carried forward, what ought to be changed. He had it all in his mind.

I know exactly how he felt, because it's exactly the way you feel when you leave an office which you have held for some time, and where you have given your best thought, energies and concern. You just hate to let it go. It's