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Then she had conducted that Reconstruction Commission after it was appointed. She was the Executive Secretary of it. She had managed that. That brought about a very good situation. I never saw anything that wasn't for the good in her influence and in the things that she advised Al to do.

I never knew, and I never have known, how good her influence was with regard to Raskob. She was looking for money, money for the campaign, money for a lot of things. She heard of Raskob. He was a new rich, a poor boy who rose in the world, had lots of money and nothing to do with it really. He was Catholic and therefore easily interested in Smith, whom he didn't know. She engineered an introduction there. She flattered Raskob. She persuaded the Governor to pay some attention to him. He was a kind of a measly little man. He was not attractive at all. He was kind of snarly, a squirrely type. He was not the kind the Governor would ordinarily take to, but on the basis of religion and one thing or another she persuaded the Governor to be nice to him.

How good that was and how good that judgment was, I don't know. She couldn't have foreseen that Raskob who lived under fear would have an influence on Al that would eventually, in a moment when he was sour, lead him over into the Liberty