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used to creep in among some people's comments on it.

Herbert Lehman was a Democrat when most of the rich Jews in America were Republicans. He was a Democrat because of his Southern background. He had been raised up in a place where everybody was a Democrat, so he had an inclination in that direction. When he entered into good works, he entered with a bang with Lillian Wald. I don't know when he got into that phase. By the time I knew Lillian Wald and Henry Street Herbert Lehman was certainly around there. He was one of her younger supporters, although there were many others. I began to notice him in the Mitchel administration, but he was around before then. He was one of the promising young and rich men which Miss Wald was interested in showing how to be good neighbors, and all that kind of thing.

He was always a very agreeable, pleasant person who was nice to know. He was always on the right side of everything, with a very high personal integrity. He was a Democrat and so he was natural game for anybody who was running on the Democratic ticket. I suppose he was always a contributor to any respectable Democrat that put his head up.

I doubt very much if Smith would have been enraged at the selection of Eddie Flynn as Secretary of State, as Elliott says in the compilation of his father's letters. It is a sinecure at best. There is no job there to be done and