from left: Charles H. Silver, Governor Thomas Dewey, Cardinal Francis Spellman and General Alfred Gruenther at the 1953 Al Smith Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria
from left: Cardinal Francis Spellman, Clare Booth Luce, Cardinal James McIntyre (Los Angeles), Mayor of New York Robert Wagner, and Gov. Averell Harriman at the 1957 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