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answer. Roosevelt still seemed to want Smith's help, but he seemed to want it when he asked for it and not at any other time. “So,” said Al, “I just decided I wouldn't go to Albany unless I was asked.” So he didn't call up any more and say he'd come up that weekend. He had gone up for a good many weekends. He had always been cordially received, but he didn't get anywhere. His advice was asked about matters that he thought really didn't matter and which he thought could have been gotten from anybody.

Al gradually began to realize that he was getting the cool-off treatment. I suppose it was right then and there that he began to be hurt, as it dawned on him gradually. Of course, beginning right here, Mrs. Moskowitz began pressing Al. She wanted a job and Al was her medium. This was along towards spring. Roosevelt had already chosen Guernsey Cross, but still he could put her in other posts, doing something about it. She was pressing Al wanting to know what he was going to do. Finally Al said, “I don't think he's going to do anything.” She told me herself that Roosevelt had, very foolishly she thought, turned down her offer to be of help to him. Of course, she said to me that she didn't feel the same obligation to him that she did to Al Smith, but she would have been willing to give him all