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troublesome things, not that Al didn't too, but Al's postponements didn't look as evasive because they were wholly occupied with serious conversations with a number of people, which were really consultations. They might be serving just to postpone the fatal day, but still he was talking it over. Whereas, Roosevelt would lay aside a thing that needed to be settled and just let it drift a while. He would actually say to his intimates, “Well, just let it ride a while. We'll find an answer.” That bothered Al awfully. He had a feeling that perhaps we wouldn't get that appropriation for the state hospital. Something might go wrong.

He felt that he would like to say to Roosevelt, “Now, you do this and this. I did this and that. Then, you see, you'll get both votes and the report from the finance committee. So you'll get the money for the state hospital.” He felt like telling him too much and Roosevelt was just beginning to feel his oats.

I did try to write in the book that I wrote the necessity of a man like Roosevelt learning to feel confidence in himself and learning to bear the burdens of his own decisions and not to have any doubt of his ability to make them. I think that perhaps made him more sensitive to correction and criticism than he would otherwise have been.

At any rate, Al went up two or three times to Albany.