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In the meantime I had cemented my relations with Herbert Lehman very closely. I had gone to see Herbert Lehman within a couple of days after his inauguration to make sure that he wanted me to go on, to ask him, “Do you want me to continue as Industrial Commissioner? Wouldn't you rather make a change? Don't you want to do something else? It's all right with me.”

He said, “No, no. I want you to go on very much. I count on you. I depend on you. I'm very anxious to have you stay.” Certainly he was innocent of any other ideas.

So I had begun to go over with him different things that had been pending, to get his views on them, and so on. Within a couple of weeks, I remember saying to Miss Jay, “You know, Lehman is going to be a very different kind of a Governor to work with. He's nervous and fussy.” He used to telephone two or three times a day. Somebody would send him a letter or telegram, saying that he didn't get a good deal under the workmen's compensation act, or somebody would write him that a factory inspector had been trying to shake him down, or somebody would write him that the whole medical situation in the Department of Labor was terrible and that the doctors were regularly over-rating the cases. He'd be all hot and bothered. He'd telephone