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was, as an aged lady, the last tenant put out of the old Murray Hill Hotel. She rallied the tenants to protest when they tore it down. She had fighting spirit until that day.

The Walsh Committee was appointed and the thing that surprised and interested all of us was that the President appointed Mrs. J. Borden Harriman (Daisy Harriman) as a member of this Walsh Committee on Industrial Relations. As Daisy says to this day, “Of course, that's where I got my start. What did I know about life in America before that?” That was true. She was a very handsome and beautiful woman who had married Bordie Harriman and was a Democrat. Bordie Harriman was ill for may years. I don't remember whether he came down to Washington to live when she did, or whether he was too ill to. I think he was too ill and was living in hospitals and places like that. About that I'm not quite positive. He died not very long after that. Anyhow, she had moved down to Washington at the beginning of the Wilson administration. It's possible that she moved just before, but I don't think so. She was a great Democrat and greatly interested in Wilson's candidacy. She became more and more effective in Democratic amateur politics. In an amateur way she got interested in the politics.

She always had these very charming hostessy ways with her and became quite a hostess in the Wilson administration.