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schedule my life as well. That offers problems to a person with young children. Certain problems are all right if you can schedule them.

However, everything worked out very conveniently for me. I always had good luck. My children were never sick, but once. In all the years that I had growing-up children and official and professional duties I was only once called home because a child was sick. That was brief, but it seemed critical because somebody's fever shot up suddenly. It's interesting, because a sick child eats into a state of mind enormously in coping with things. It does with men too, but men don't have quite the responsibility for it that women do.

Also there was the question as to whether I would have to move to Albany or not. That was a considerable problem to me. It didn't appeal to me at all and would be most inconvenient from almost every point of view. We let it ride. I raised it with the Governor. He said, “I suppose you ought to. It's the seat of the government.” We let it ride by agreement. As a matter of fact, the work that was done from Albany was so small in point of hours consumed as compared to the work done in New York City that it never became really practical to move there, although I was in





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