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The great thing that makes somebody love another person is that he's able to do something for him. You love the person you befriend. You may or may not love the person who befriends you, but you do love the person you befriend. You do love and struggle for the person whom you help and are able to help. Whether they're grateful or not, doesn't seem to have anything to do with it for a long, long time. Unless they utterly betray you it doesn't register.

Al Smith felt that he had befriended Franklin Roosevelt. He felt very much that he had. He had reached down into this sick man's life and said, “Now you can run for Governor. I'll pull you up. I'll help you. You can do it. Don't be afraid. I'll show you how. I'll teach you your lesson.” You are attached to somebody from the first moment when you befriend him.

So I think there was a misunderstanding between them with regard to the category, quality and character of friendship. Al did not regard Franklin Roosevelt as merely a political affiliate with whom it was expedient to be on good terms. He didn't discover this misunderstanding until after the election of '28 and didn't discover it right away then. He came to it very slowly. I think his bitterness at Roosevelt was partly that he never did understand that there are these different categories of friendship and that