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very late. We spoke to quantities of people. As early as seven o'clock in the evening the “in the knows” were sure that Roosevelt was elected. It was taking on those proportions. Everybody was embracing everybody else. The most ungodly looking women were kissing each other, kissing me, and others. I remember saying, “You have to stand a lot for your country. You have to endure this demonstration of affection which means nothing.” There wasn't much liquor served, but that night they were so effusive that you thought there might have been drinking.

I think it was Daisy Harriman who said to me, “Come on. I've just telephoned to Hyde Park and Franklin wants us all to come up.”

I said, “Who?”

She said, “You know, you come, Mary come, Nancy come.”

Between us all we picked up maybe ten or fifteen women who really knew the Roosevelts very well and who had been in the swim of things. There were a lot of men up there already. We took the train and went up to Poughkeepsie. I'm pretty sure that this was in 1932. I see us going up on the train. I see us being met in Poughkeepsie. I see us out at the house at Hyde Park. I see us sitting around the telephone. The telephone connection was in the little blue room. There were a lot of young men running around up