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I remember that Mrs. Roosevelt looked extremely well. She had on a simple well cut black velvet dress. It became her. It was nicely made and she looked extremely well on that particular day. That was before she had ever cut her hair and she had a great, enormous head of hair, very thick and very long. A hat was always a problem on that account, but she had managed to get a very good hat that sat on her head properly and she looked very well. Mrs. Smith looked well. Everybody looked nice. Everybody was very friendly and very pleased with everybody else.

Then there was the great New Year's Day reception following the inauguaration. Everybody went over from the Assembly to the Executive Mansion. On this occasion the Governor had asked not the world and his wife, but all the members of the Legislature and their wives, all public officials and their wives, and a rather select sprinkling of Albany society, though not everybody. I remember a lot of people said, “Why isn't ‘So and So' here?” I remember Mrs. William Gorham Rice saying, “They aren't even Democrats. Why should they be here?” She was the great lady of Albany. She was a Pruyn and very much somebody. She put it all down to their not being Democrats.

I really think, and I thought afterwards, that of course