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in ‘32 as a delegate pledged to Newton D. Baker. She went as a delegate from the District of Columbia and has been a committee woman from the District of Columbia for many years. She went pledged to Newton Baker whom she had known well in the Wilson administration and known him as a liberal. He was very much one of us. He was the president of the National Consumers' League and took our position and point of view. She had promised him long before it was known that Roosevelt was going to run that she would be with him, and she stuck with him. She's the kind of a politician that makes a promise and keeps it.

She was embarrassed in a way when Roosevelt was nominated because she was one of those who voted against him, even though she was not really against him. He never laid it against her. She made a point of explaining to him what her position was. He didn't lay it against her at all. It's the kind of thing you respect. She's never wavered on the general policies and general principles that the Democrat party turned toward beginning about that time.

Well, of course, Senator Frank Walsh was a very distinguished person, and the committee was very distinguished. They went all around the country investigating. Toward the end of the series of hearings there was an episode in which Mother Jones met John D. Rockefeller. The committee