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I'm more liberal about women. I'm more intelligent about this. I'm more clever about that.”

He told me that it didn't seem to indicate that Al had anything against me. I saw it as part of the pattern of Al's background. He came from a good Brooklyn, Irish-American background where women didn't have much to say and where bossy women were certainly not popular in male circles around the bar. I don't think it meant much and I know that Al Smith wasn't furious about this.

Elliott also says in that book that Smith was furious that Bob Moses had been replaced by Edward J. Flynn as Secretary of State. Al Smith had liked Moses very much indeed. Moses had certainly been a very good and faithful servant to him. Moses had at some time previous to all this run afoul of Roosevelt somewhere. I don't know where, or I've forgotten, as I must have know it at one time. Roosevelt had taken a considerable dislike to him. Moses was a far from winning person, and still is. I happen to like him very much, but an awful lot of people can't bear him, and good people at that. Anyhow, Roosevelt hadn't liked him at all although he recognized that he was very useful to Al Smith, who had, according to Roosevelt, babied him, given in to him, coddled him along, given him an awful lot of authority and power, and then done what he said.