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Now Baruch is a very kind man in many ways. He has taken care of the little money and little property of widows and orphans of his friends for years. I remember walking away from “Pa” Watson's funeral in Washington. I went to the church that day. Mr. Baruch was going in just as I was going in. So we went in and sat down together and we walked away from the church together. Neither of us had cars so we walked downtown to some other place together - the Mayflower, I guess. We got to talking about “Pa” Watson, how much we liked him, how sad it was. He said, “Poor Frances (that was Pa's wife) my goodness this was a blow to her. She's such a nice girl. Do you know her?”

I said, “Indeed I do know her. She's lovely.”

He said, “Well, I suppose I'll go out to see Frances this evening. I'll have to take her over the way I've taken over so many other wives of my good friend. I've taken over Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. ‘So-and-So' and Mrs. ‘So-and- So.' I always take them over and look after their money. Frances won't know what to do with her money. She hasn't got much, but she'll have something from Pa and I'll have to take care of it.”

Then he mentioned as we walked along a number of other women, mostly the widows of Democratic leaders of one kind or another, men who had been in politics and had served