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with the exaggerated use of money. That's just one of the accidents of life.

At this time when I decided to come to Washington as Secretary of Labor, I knew also what was paining my husband. That was his alarm about publicity that would involve him. Publicity doesn't beat upon the public official of New York State, unless he wants it to. Nobody cares anything about where you live, how you live, what you do, whether you have a farm, or if you don't. It isn't a matter of the slightest interest. You read almost nothing about it, unless some individual wants some publicity for some reason or other - to promote himself usually. You live an ordinary life, and that's that.

He knew, and I knew, that the glare of publicity beat heavily upon the federal officials. He dreaded the fact that somebody would inquire about him. That was terribly hard for him to bear. It was very hard for him to bear. I made up my mind that I would take the job. I had been told I must by Mary Dewson, and why I must - if I didn't take it, a hundred years might go by before any other woman would ever be asked, or so she said. She said, “How do you dare think that you won't do it! You can't tell how many generations will go by before a woman will be asked to do that. If you are asked to do it, you walk in, make a good success of it,