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whether you are going to be Governor of this state, or whether Mrs. Moskowitz is going to be Governor of this state. If Mrs. Moskowitz is your secretary, she will run you. It won't hurt you. It won't give you any pain. She will run you in such a way that you don't know that you're being run a good deal of the time. Everything will be arranged so subtly that when the matter comes to you it will be natural to decide to do the thing that Mrs. Moskowitz has already decided should be done. That is the way she works. That is the kind of person she is. She doesn't do it in any spirit of ill will. It's simply that her competence is so much greater than anybody else's that even with Al Smith, as much as she loves him, she still ran him in that same subtle way.'”

I knew that too. We all did. All of us who knew the inside knew that Belle arranged things so that when they went before Al, it was so logical to make the decision that she'd already told you would be made. She got to the point before Al was through where she would say to me, when I would say, “Now, this is what I want to get done, Belle,” with a kind of a supercilious smile, “It'll be all right, Frances. Don't give it any more thought. I'll see to that. This will be done. I wouldn't speak to the Governor if I were you. It will be better if I handle it alone.” She would prepare it for him so it just seemed as though it were something