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expected, nor had most of the others, to be sworn in on the 4th of March. I only had notice of about a week and I expected to have a chance to clean up. I had even asked Roosevelt that and he'd said, “Oh yes, you'll have a chance to clean up.” We would not have been sworn in, actually, if it had not been for the bank crisis and the general crisis in the country which was so bad. As of the night he interviewed me, Roosevelt thought that we wouldn't all be sworn in on the 4th of March and at least I could tell Herbert Lehman that I would have a couple of weeks to clean up. There were certain things in the stewpot that ought to be cleaned up, ought to be settled, ought to be tied up. That was the understanding. I would come back from Washington for a couple of weeks, would have a good long talk with the Governor, and would have everything put down in black and white, such as the status of every project, recommendation for legislation, recommendations about people, and all that sort of thing, as an operating basis for the Governor with a new Industrial Commissioner.

I then went out to see my husband. I had seen Roosevelt one evening and Lehman the next afternoon. I think it was late afternoon that I saw him, because I remember that the lights were lighted. My visual memory gives me the impression that the lights were lighted, but since it was a New York