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positions subordinate to the Governor. I don't know whether Smith would have accepted it. He took the Empire State job because he needed to earn a living badly. This was the best job his friends could think of for him. He had a big and expensive family and a family that had grown expensive while he was Governor. They had developed luxurious tastes they didn't previously have that demanded money. They just had to have it. I don't know that he was in debt. If he was in debt, it was only to Johnny Gilchrist and people like that who were his bosom friends. I don't think he borrowed money from people to whom he had political obligations. He had the burdened feeling, at any rate, that he must earn some money and put his family on a sound basis. That was what they thought of for him.

If the situation had been somewhat different and the President had been a Democrat, there would have been a number of jobs at the federal level which would have been admirable. If Al had been a person who had merely retired from being Governor of New York, there would have been a number of excellent things which he could have done on the federal level. But on the state level there were very few things that would be really worthy to offer to a former Governor. I don't know what they would be. If this great Reconstruction Commission had been operating, he would have been an admirable