from left: Charles H. Silver, Secretary of Commerce Averell Harriamn, Cardinal Francis Spellman, General Courtney Hodges, and Basil O'Connor on the dais of the 1946 Al Smith Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria
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, Dwight Eisenhower, Cardinal Francis Spellman, and Governor Thomas Dewey at the 1954 Al Smith Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria
from left: Mayor of New York John Lindsay, Richard Nixon, Cardinal Francis Spellman, and Nelson A. Rockefeller at the 1966 Al Smith Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria