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an engineer by training and profession. McAdoo had had a considerable success in his profession. After all, those tunnels under the Hudson River were called the McAdoo Tunnels originally and they were built long before he went into politics. He was completely pure and clean in politics. He was just an able engineer, administrator and planner. I remember that with great finagling Fulton Cutting, or somebody, got him to come on the Committee on Safety. He was such a fine, vigorous young man with so much in his head. He was Secretary of the Treasury in the Wilson administration and that was regarded as a very fine appointment, I seem to remember. It was very well thought of. So far as I can remember, he had an excellent reputation all through the Wilson administration and was very well thought of at every point.

So the reasons for being in favor of McAdoo for the Presidential candidate in 1924 were numerous. He had very substantial backing. I guess the Southern delegations voted for him pretty thoroughly. If I'm not mistaken, he's a Georgia product. He was New York in his profession. I remember that Baruch was working for McAdoo. I remember Mrs. Moskowitz and others saying, “Baruch, of course, is around here pulling wires for McAdoo,” and so forth. There was that kind of grumbling.