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leave a girl of that age alone with just servants. You have to make quite serious arrangements for them.

I may have called Roosevelt. If I did, he just said what I thought he would say, “Don't be a baby. It'll be all right. Anyhow, it's all fixed and it's going to be given out tomorrow,” and it was. Once it was given out to the public I didn't even contemplate backing out. I knew I couldn't. You can't be a cheapskate. You've given your word to somebody, and you go through. The last door was closed. I had to do the best I could. My grandmother always said, “If somebody opens a door for you, my dear, if you're quite sure you haven't pulled wires or made arrangements to get that door opened, and if somebody just opens it for you unexpectedly without any connivance on your part, walk right in and do the best you can. Do the best you can, for it means that it's the Lord's will for you.” My grandmother was a very wise woman and her aphorisms have stuck by me for years. That was one of them. She said that more than once in the course of my lifetime, and that of her other grandchildren's. That stood by me and I knew that I was going to walk in and do the very best I could.

All the excitement that comes from the family and friends of someone who's going to be in the Cabinet started at once, when it became public that the President had settled