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like to live together and they like to be consulted on bloc. They like to know that Mr. Flynn has been over to this district and that he saw the Italian leaders and discussed things with them. But they don't require so much patronage. They require almost nothing to be done for them in the way of improvements locally. They like a lot of recognition, social eclat and all that sort of thing.

I remember thinking how handsome Eddie Flynn was when he wore his evening clothes. He could lean back in a chair, cross his legs, smoke a cigarette, and discuss matters of politics - I have never heard him discuss anything else - as one to the manor born. That was the show he put on.

Flynn had been giving himself airs as being superior to Tammany Hall. The Bronx and Manhattan are quite different and nobody in the Bronx belonged to Tammany Hall. He cooperated with Tammany Hall when it was desirable, but he was building up a very strong organization. He had sensed the movement of population out of Manhattan and that Queens and the Bronx were growing rapidly. He, therefore, proceeded to entrench himself.

I have never known how he got into the Roosevelt entourage, but I think it was through Uncle Henry Morgenthau, who was Ambassador to Turkey in Wilson's administration, who got into Democratic politics himself by being a very