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goodbye to everybody, which they should have done a good week before, or certainly several days before. Of course, up until the end of the 31st of December the Governor was the Governor. He had to have the responsibility and he had to be in his office the day before. There were papers to sign. He made a few of the final decisions on petitions for pardon and commutation, which are tough, and which are the custom for the outgoing Governor to decide, not leaving a batch of petitions for commutation for a new Governor. You have to do that dirty work yourself. It's hard and a strain, but you do it, clean it up and leave a clean calendar for the new Governor.

So he had to be around, but there were remnants of their personal arrangements still there. They hadn't actually moved out completely, had the house all cleaned and everything just as it should be for a public occasion. One realized that.

Also one realized that they hadn't quite said goodbye to the servants, whom they were devoted to. The old English butler adored Al. He, of course, had been greatly released by Al's administration. He talked to people in a friendly way, told them about politics and so forth. He never could stop telling how much he loved the Governor, how wonderful it was at that time. He would say to me, “Oh, how I'm going to