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Senate side. I had spoken on the platform with him long before Roosevelt's time in various campaigns. He had heard me make speeches. I sat there while he made his. He sat there while I made mine. We were speaking on a common platform. I made a speech in Boston once, I remember, with him. Felix Frankfurter, who was in the audience, afterwards said, “It was extraordinary. I think the Senator noticed the applause you got.” Felix being a very frank person said, “You didn't get the applause because you made a great speech, Frances. It wasn't a very good speech. The kinds of things you said were what the people of this country want.” I had told them in my childish glee that what Al Smith gave them in the State of New York was what the Democratic party would give them in the nation. I itemized the regulation of hours of labor, something to do about poor widows and their children, how child labor should be limited and abolished, how the hours of labor of women - we hadn't gone beyond that in our thinking - would be regulated, minimum wages, so forth and so on. He said, “That's what the people want.” It was at a great big meeting in Mechanics Hall, I think. I got terrific applause. As Felix said, it wasn't a very good speech, particularly as compared with some of the things Harrison said, which was some of the most beautiful, old-fashioned Senatorial oratory. It was real Senatorial oratory. He was a past master at it.