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Somebody should have explained to Al why Roosevelt had to have a little more head and had to be treated like a grown-up man. I never saw anybody trying to heal that breach. Jim Farley always said that he was and he may have been doing it. I used to think that I was trying to heal the breach and certainly I was so far as my intentions were concerned. I did try to explain to Al on two different occasions just what I've been saying - why Franklin Roosevelt, more than the average person, had to be left alone and had to have an opportunity to see what he could do without help. If help was to be given to him, it must be in such a subtle and impersonal way that it didn't appear to be help. It couldn't be direct advice. I tried to put it on the grounds of the way people feel towards their mother who likes to give them good advice. At a certain age they have to throw it off or they never learn to do it themselves.

I remember that as the word came out of my mouth I knew that I was saying the wrong thing to Al Smith because he couldn't understand it at all. That wasn't the way he felt about his mother or supposed that was the way anybody felt about their mother. Your mother is somebody you always listen to in Al Smith's view. You always listen to her and her advice is always good and given to you for your own