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of a woman, unexpected, unprecedented, was not going to corral the woman's vote. Thousands of women would be pleased, but it wasn't going to corral their vote. Other things would attract their vote more than that. The appointment of a woman they don't know doesn't mean anything to people. It wouldn't corral their vote, and anyhow it was going to be four years, at least, before Roosevelt would need their vote. They would have forgetten about it by that time and would take it as a natural act by then.

There had not been an organized demand for such a step either. If the General Federation of Women's Clubs had made an assault on him and said, “We demand the appointment of one of these three women,” then I would have seen that it would have been a concession to a strong potential voters' group. But there wasn't such a pressure. To be sure, the Chairman of the Woman's Division of the National Democratic Committee was for me, but she was also a professional associate of mine and knew me as a professional. That is, she had been in the Consumers' League. I had been in the Consumers' League. She had known my work since I began to work in the field of social work. She had known my work in the government as she observed it from the point of view of the Consumers' League. So she was recommending a professional colleague, whom she knew only on her professional side, not