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and the French and Indian War. It's just as alive as though I had to go down and protect my waterfront, because that was what the family did. They had a little fort or garrison house down on our point in Maine. The remnants of it are still there. There is a garrison rock where I can show where the garrison was, where the stockade was. The neighbors from a good many miles around would run there when there was trouble. One of the great battles of the French and Indian War was fought right off Fort Pemaquid, where there was a big fort. This fleet that my great-grandfather raised went down and took part in this great battle. That's very close.

Franklin Roosevelt had that close-up memory. Al Smith's close-up memory was only what people who lived down under the Brooklyn Bridge had had to tell him about what happened when the Brooklyn Bridge was being built. He knew the neighbors of that old neighborhood very well indeed, because he'd lived there as a little boy. They had never lived very far from that area under the Brooklyn Bridge, even when his mother was widowed and he was living with her. His little house on Oliver Street was still in the same neighborhood, although it was a very nice street and the more prosperous people lived there. Of course, Al had worked in the Fulton Fish Market as a boy.