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She quickly acquires information. She sees, hears, understands and relates it. As she's often said afterwards, “I had no idea such things were true. I had no idea such things existed.” She got hustled around to all the settlements. She knew every part of the city and she knew the picture.

That's always been very interesting to me because Mrs. Harriman from that time on has been a better Democrat and a better politician. She was very useful on the Walsh Committee because she was simple and she was humble. She wasn't all filled up with pride. She would let some of the rest of us give her a question. We would say, “Now this subject is coming up next week in your hearings. I would suggest that you perhaps ask these two or three questions in the course of the hearing. They'll bring the matter to a point. They'll give ‘So-and-So’ the opportunity to testify to something he knows about.” So she became a very useful member of that committee.

They made a report. To this day I don't recall all that they reported, but it was one of the influences that was stirring in that period and in that time. Since that time she'd been a very loyal adherent in all the crises of the Democratic party. You never caught her running away from Al Smith. You never got her running away from Roosevelt in his most extreme moments. She went to the Chicago convention