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digesting that. Then he said, “I want to tell you something and don't you tell this to anybody. The other night, after the inauguration, Al stayed for supper and we had a talk after supper. Al made a suggestion to me and I told him I'd think about it. He made a suggestion to me which I certainly wasn't prepared for. I hadn't even thought of it.

“He was telling me all the thing that he thought we ought to do, about the programs with regard to the state hospitals, the parks and various things, what he had planned, what was in the future. He certainly has a good idea of what needs to be done in the State of New York.

“I told him some time age when he talked to me about Bob Moses that I wouldn't have Bob Moses around. I didn't like him and he didn't like me. I wasn't going to have him. That was some weeks ago that I told Al that. So he didn't say anything more about Bob Moses to me, although he's very dependent on Bob Moses, as you know, and thinks very highly of him. He feels that nobody else can carry on the parks, or the highways, or even the state hospitals except Moses, because he's got so much ability. But I'm not going to have Bob Moses around, Frances, because I don't trust him. I don't like him. I don't trust him. He doesn't like me. There'll be trouble.”





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