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security. It gave them comfort and gave them support.

So far as I could ever see that was a good marriage. It was a marriage that gave Harry a great deal of comfort and understanding. Barbara was an exceptionally fine woman, very agreeable, very companionable, not a selfish person at all. I'm sure she offered no harassments, made no demands beyond the human capacity to understand and to give. She was the maternal type, which I think was probably what Hopkins needed in his personal understanding of life. They had a child, Diana, that was the apple of their eye. She was just a very little girl when Barbara died. It was a very good marriage so far as one could see.

Harry, when he came to Washington, in spite of the fact that he came as a Relief Administrator and was dealing with the grimmest aspects of American life and the most disadvantaged and distressed people, curiously developed a social flare that he had never had any outlet for in New York and never any practice of it. He really developed a social flare. People who were accustomed to making social life a kind of avocation, a secondary part of their lives, it being pretty important to them, found him very entertaining, very amusing and very agreeable. He was asked out a lot and he enjoyed





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