in the Cabinet where he remained until, during my term, he retired due to ill health, and did not long survive.
Again I supposed I had reached the summit of any possible political preferment and was quite content to finish my public career as Governor of Massachusetts – an office that has always been held in the highest honor by the people of the Commonwealth.
To get a few days' rest I went to Maine the next Friday after the election. It was there that I was awakened in the middle of Sunday night to be told that the Armistice had been signed. I returned to Boston the following day to take part in the celebration. What the end of the four years of carnage meant those who remember it will never forget and those who do not can never be told. The universal joy, the enormous relief, found expression from all the people in a spontaneous outburst of thanksgiving.
While the war was done, its problems were to confront the state and nation for many years. I was to meet them as Governor and President. They will
