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not the best handmade furniture, but it's impressive furniture.

I knew Lehman very well indoed. He always sat forward in his chair. I knew him so well that nothing that he did that night was impressive to me, because it was the way he always was. I went in the early evening - five o'clock or so. It was the hour that he fixed and I stopped there on my way uptown.

I told him that Roosevelt had offered me this post and asked me to take it. Of course, he, Lehman, had told me that he wished me to continue in my post. I, therefore, wanted him to say if he would release me. He said, “Well, of course, I will. Naturally one has to do that. Of course, I've read the papers too and I knew that it was not out of the question that he would ask you to do this. I'm sorry because I meant it when I said that I wanted you to continue as Industrial Commissioner and that I looked forward to working with you,” and so forth.

However, my secretary and I, in the two months that had elapsed since Lehman became Governor, had decided that it wasn't going to be as much fun to work for Governor Lehman as it had been for Smith and Roosevelt. That was because Lehman was a fuss-budget. He would call up on the telephone all excited about the most trifling things. He'd call up about nothing. He'd not only call up once