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League outfit. I'm sure Belle never thought as far as that. All she wanted in the Raskob connection was money for campaigns, publicity and things like that. She got that, but that brought Raskob into Smith's orbit.

However, Mrs. Roosevelt told the Governor how able she was, how useful she had been to Al, how extremely helpful she had been to Al, who had not actually thought about the things which he later carried out and which are associated with his name. Mrs. Moskowitz had been a kind of interpreter to him about some of them.

Al was Governor and did a wonderful job of Governor. That wasn't all her doing or all his. It was a combination of both. Mrs. Moskowitz contributed a great deal to his programs and to the carrying out of his programs. They were his programs. He accepted them, assented to them, understood them and promoted them. He would never have thought of the Reconstruction Commission or its program, however. Many other people did the same thing with him. She helped, I suppose, a good deal in the selection of people who would work with him. She had good judgment about some people who could be brought in. He might have appointed many more of the typical, club house politicians than he did, except for her general judgment as to the right way to go. He wasn't very well acquainted, outside of the purely political