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not to all of the cabinet officers. This was the occasion when we spoke to each other for the first time. There were some other people there. Mary and Adolph Miller were there. Mrs. Roosevelt, the elder, was there. The William church Osborns were there. They were elderly people who had been great friends of Franklin Roosevelt's and of his father and mother. They were neighbors on the Hudson River. That was here I saw Josephus Daniels and his wife for the first time. It wasn't too exclusive a group, but it was very pleasant. There were people around - some of whom you knew, and some of whom you didn't. We had a very pleasant time.

I said to Susanna, “You stay here with Mrs. ‘So-and- So.’ I think I had better go out into the big dining room and circulate a little, because I'm sure there are New York people there I ought to speak to.” I had this feeling, which I carried over from New York political life and New York official life, as well as ordinary New York so call life, that you must speak to people. You can't withdraw into a special place. You went out and mingled. You sought out your acquaintances. The higher you were placed in the social and official scale, the more you must go and seek them because the less they would feel at liberty to come and speak to you. I remember hating to expose Susanna