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was the propriety and competence of such an appointment. By this time I had been learning to discipline myself not to make fusses about things that didn't matter on basic principles, so to help myself to stand firm when it was a basic principle like old age insurance, which I had to fight the President on. I had to stand firm on something like that.

Anyhow, Miss Dickerman arrived several days after Mrs. Rosenberg. Miss Dickerman and Mrs. Rosenberg did not know each other. I introduced Miss Dickerman all around. She knew Gerard Swope, of course, because he was a long time acquaintance of the President's when he was in Albany. She was a nice woman, a very kind, simple person. Mrs. Rosenberg was introduced to her. I didn't realize all this at first, but I realized within a few days that Mrs. Rosenberg knew who she was, that Mrs. Rosenberg knew that she was the principal of the school at which Mrs. Roosevelt had taught, that she had found out that she lived on the Roosevelt place at Hyde Park in a house that she and Miss Cook owned together.

Of course. I was busy with a lot of other things and I undertook to keep myself out of the social life of this commission because I had enough social life of my own, which as a visiting Minister of Labor I had to engage in. You can't go and visit in a foreign country when you're a high