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can't have somebody around who's going to do it for me and tell me where I get off all the time. I know I can't. I just musn't do it.”

At that time I thought, “Well, he's losing something. She's an awfully clever person and if she came to like him as much as she likes Al Smith, she'd give him the same kind of loyal service. On the other hand, she is not loyal now. She is not devoted to him. She's devoted to Al. What she's going to do for Roosevelt is to continue Al's life and hand, and Al's personality, into the next administration. That's what she's doing it for - to keep Al alive. I think he's probably right on those grounds.”

I remember having a very real sense, as I rode home on the train that night, of this man, sick and struggling, having almost lost his will power at one time in his illness, just grabbing to keep his will power. He must do it himself. He must think it himself. He must feel it himself. He must realize it himself. It must be his. I had a good deal of respect for him on that account, and sympathy too, because you realized that it was hard. It was going to be harder than it would to have a kind of ready-made “brain trust” right there. He was also right that there were antagonisms that would have arisen inevitably as Roosevelt's friends supplanted Smith's friends in the stream of callers