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Al Smith would have thought it was a poor idea to interfere.

There were always individuals who, because they loved Al Smith, would say, “I wish we could have Al Smith. How I wish we could have Al.” That wasn't so much a deliberate political opinion as it was kind of an emotional wish to see the nice old fellow back. He was more popular than Roosevelt ever was, by which I mean that people loved him more and more kinds of people loved him at that time. However, I don't think there was any serious proposal for him to run.

There was also a new political circle in Albany by this time. Ed Flynn was there and he had been in political circles for a long time. Jim Farley began to be very much in evidence around and about. At that time Farley seemed like lots of other people to me. He was agreeable and a likable person. He was Boxing Commissioner and took an interest in the manly sport. He looked like a man who took an interest in the manly sport and you would have expected to see him at prize fights. He had kind of a sporting type of face and personality. I remember thinking how much more presentable, intelligent and high-minded he was than one would have expected from a person whom one knew about only as Boxing Commissioner and whose first interest was prize fighting. I remember realizing that he was not entirely a promoter of prize fights, that he was a man who thought a