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They were just young girls and Eleanor's bloom came later.

Eleanor had no bitterness about any of this. I think that “poor Eleanor” business sprang out of a true situation. They were moved to pity by her predicament. If they hadn't been, God knows what they might have done with her! They might have put her in a tough school somewhere that would keep her the year ‘round and just paid the fees. But she never had that. She was always taken to somebody's house. She knew she was welcome, but she also knew she was a visitor.

Anyway, I became a much better friend of Mrs. Roosevelt's when she was the Governor's wife and I was a member of her husband's Cabinet, so to speak, in Albany, because we had more opportunity for becoming acquainted. However, I know that she had nothing whatever to do with my appointment. I don't even know if Roosevelt asked her advice. If he did, she would have said, “Whatever Mary Dewson says is all right, is all right.” Whatever work she did in politics, she did strictly as a lieutenant of Miss Dewson's.

Miss Dewson's trial balloon was to have it put in the paper within a few days that it was now very definite that Roosevelt was going to appoint Miss Perkins. She had talked to Roosevelt before. He approved the trial balloons. That's what they always do. I somehow think that President Eisenhower gave his word about a number of matters before having the trial