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the minute that I walked out of the door--but I rather did resent the fact that he seemed to forget my existence when I was still with him.” He was busy beefing that day about the fact that he had had to take the President of the Philippines all around Washington. He said, “The President of the United States has more things to do than be a sightseeing guide for visiting celebrities.” I thought to myself, “The next man that comes in he's going to tell, ‘I just had to spend twenty minutes with some damned book publisher.'” I didn't warm up to him at all.

Also that year we did a book about Lady Bird, and I went down to have lunch with her. This was a different kettle of tea, if you can use that expression for Mrs. Johnson. She's a charming, lovely lady. I met the two daughters then, too. I liked Lynda very much but took an instantaneous dislike to Luci. She was a spoiled brat. I understand that she's changed a lot since she's married. Lynda was a lovely girl. She went to work for McCall's and she's just married, you know. She seemed very nice, indeed.

In 1965, Knopf did a book--by this time, of course, Knopf was part of Random House--that shows you what can happen when you least expect it in the publishing business. Dag Hammarskjold delivered a book called Markings.

Did he deliver that before his death?

No. I think that it came from Bonnier, the Swedish publisher. Hammarskjold wrote it shortly before he died.