from left: Charles H. Silver, Dwight Eisenhower, Cardinal Francis Spellman, and Governor Thomas Dewey at the 1954 Al Smith Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria
(from left) Charles H. Silver, Edward Cox, Tricia Nixon Cox, President Gerald Ford, Cardinal Terence Cooke, and unknown at the Al Smith Dinner (possibly 1976)
(from left) Charles H. Silver, Cardinal Terence Cooke, President Gerald Ford, Senator James Buckley, Mrs. Buckley, Mrs. Beame and Mayor Abraham Beame at the Al Smith Dinner