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run for President of the United States--that's getting pretty high, you know--but was a man the whole family admired and liked thoroughly.

Did you find him intellectually stimulating at all?

Oh, very. What was more--as I've told you, I've never considered myself an intellectual--Adlai was very much like me in that we both loved good stories. Each one that one would tell would remind the other of about fifteen similar stories. It was fun being together because we liked to reminisce and tell stories to each other.

Was he an easy author to deal with?

The nicest. I've told you that authors are people. There are nice ones and there are stinkers. Adlai Stevenson was a gentleman and a wonderful man.

Didn't you also feel, or whoever edited his stuff, that he worked hard at what he wrote? I mean, he wasn't a sloppy...

He did indeed. He turned a beautiful phrase. When he worked with Saxe Commins on his book, Saxe adored him. Saxe was still alive then.

When he was here in New York with the U.N., did you ever have him to dinner at all?