Quiltmakers also sent their stitched creations as gifts to other federal officials during the New Deal. Roosevelt’s first vice president, John Nance Garner of Texas, received quilts honoring his elevation to the executive branch. Minnie Weeden Rucker of Franklin, Texas, a widow aged sixty-two, who in 1930 was a hotel proprietor, made her Texas Star quilt in 1932, fittingly in the Lone Star quilt pattern. Embroidered around the blazing red, blue, and cream diamonds pulsating to form the star are the words “THE EYES OF TEXAS ARE UPON YOU,” and “GARNER 1932 ROOSEVELT DEMOCRATS.” Rucker sent the quilt to Vice President Elect Garner the day after the presidential election.