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any idea. I suppose somebody, in one of his books, has spoken of it. But I didn't know at the time.

Eleanor Roosevelt in her book, This I Remember, says that she had nothing to do with my appointment. That's correct - absolutely correct. It was a newspaper person's fiction that I was a close friend of Mrs. Roosevelt's and that the President had to appoint me to appease her. That fiction has been maintained and repeated. Mrs. Roosevelt had nothing whatever to do with it. In the first place, we were not close friends. People speak as though we had been school girls together - intimate friends. It's not true. I knew Mrs. Roosevelt very superficially at about the same time that I knew him. I certainly knew her when he was in the State Senate. She used to be in Albany a great deal. She was very useful. She had ideas about how the wives of the members of the legislature should come to Albany, become acquainted with each other and make a kind of esprit de corps among them all. She was quite loyal about doing it, although she had many young children. So I became acquainted with her there, but I would never use a stronger word than “acquainted.”

She had worked for the Consumers' League before that, but I was only vaguely acquainted with her. She was a volunteer worker and I saw her, but was only acquainted with her.