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attention and helpfulness. I also wanted somebody bright enough to read the cases, read the memoranda, make a digest of them and tell me the truth about what was in them. She turned out to be that kind of a person. She was a perfect alter ego. She could handle ever so many things that I really couldn't have handled without breaking dignity. She was wonderful about that. She was very tactful and yet she'd insinuate an idea into people's minds - “If you don't watch out, the Commissioner might get angry about this.” She was really awfully smart about it. She was very much liked and she's stuck with me all these years.

When I came to Washington, I didn't intend to bring her. I had made up my mind that I musn't, for her sake, bring her. She had a fine job in the New York Department of Labor and I thought she ought to stay there. I hadn't been here a week before I knew that highminded as that was, I just couldn't take it without her.

We didn't know anything about Senators being sacred. I didn't know and she didn't know. Some people said she treated the political public roughly. Nobody ever said she treated the poor, the oppressed or the people who were having trouble badly, but that she was short with the politicians. The politicians in Washington are of quite a different breed than the politicians in New York. The New Yorkers are