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recommending me because I had delivered thousands and thousands of votes. I had done my part in the campaign. I had done all I could. I had done all that I was asked to do. But nobody could say, “Why, she brought the Daughters of the Revolution into our camp. They voted for Roosevelt on account of what she said and did.” I hadn't brought a countable group in.

I counted on all those things to weigh in Roosevelt's mind. I counted on all the political measurements, which I knew were being considered in other situations, to weigh against me, even though I might have some merit. I knew that Harold Ickes had delivered the old Progressive party and the unhappy Republicans in the Midwest. I knew that that was the reason for the appointment of this otherwise unknown man. I had never heard of him before. I knew that these things were always matters of consideration. When, reading the paper and hearing all this noise, I got scared that he might do it, I would say to myself, “He won't. It's impossible. It's ridiculous.”

How can I say if any part of me wanted the appointment? No man knows himself well enough for that. I think I know myself pretty well. After all, professional pride is a part of you too. I took great pleasure and great pride in my work in the State of New York, in what I had done, in what