In early 1933, Ettie Garner packed up her work and moved from one end of the Capitol to the other. Her husband, Speaker John Nance Garner, had just been elected Vice President. As she had since the start of the Speaker’s career, Garner continued to act as his secretary and chief advisor. A reporter who visited the Capitol just before inauguration recalled “stopping to see Mrs. Garner, who was putting in a few more licks of hard work at her old hide-out.”
