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could do. He'd say a kind word about me. I made a point of letting him know what we were going to do about certain things. I did exactly what he suggested. When any Tammany Hall leader called me up about So-and-so being promoted, or So-and-so being appointed, I listened to him very politely, said I would be glad to do it if I could. Then I would tell him what the law was. If the law didn't permit it, that was that. But I would be sorry and I'd be polite, because he was only doing his duty to his brother. I had to think of it in those terms.

I had a lot of fuss with one of them about one or two people. Curiously, there were one or two perennial applicants for jobs who could always get a strong backing from some district leader in Tammany Hall. These people tended to be repeaters. They would move from one district to another. Then make themselves indispensable to the club leader there and get him to call up. One of them was a man who had a very fine education and had on paper excellent qualifications. I appointed him once to something for which he was qualified on paper. It turned out he was a drug addict. That of course didn't show and you didn't know about it until you got him to working for you. You couldn't imagine what was was the matter with him because he had everything on paper - a good education, a good family, good training and good