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When I went to talk with the new Governor several days later about my own plans, he talked interestedly, but he said, “Do you know Mrs. Moskowitz well?”

I said, “Yes, I know her quite well. In fact, I think I know her very well.”

“What do you think of her?”

I said, “She's a very able woman - terribly able. Personally I like her very much. She's always been a good friend to me. She's helpful, intelligent.”

He said, “What kind of a woman is she really? What's she like in her heart? How does she come to be with us and how is she a Democrat?”

I told him the episode of how she'd gotten sore at Whitman and had deserted Whitman in a great huff. She had gone over to Al because he was opposing Whitman. I told him how I had made introductions, how quickly she had caught on.

He said, “Oh, she was a Republican.”

I said, “Yes.”

Somehow that made some kind of an impression on him - that she had deserted Whitman. I don't know what kind of an impression it made. I never did know exactly what he thought. He said two or three times, “So she was with Whitman and she left Whitman to go over to Al.” He was





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