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along behind it. The hotels were very poor. The food was incredibly bad. So we exited for three days in Vienna just to eat, wash, and rest, and then went back in through Czechoslovakia, through Poland, stayed in Warsaw. And then headed for Berlin, all the way across Poland and across East Germany, and through that terrible gate that they have in Berlin to allow you into West Berlin. They take all your papers and then the man disappears in the box and then you have this terrible feeling of being totally naked. You haven't the faintest idea of what anybody's going to do with you. But, of course, they take the car apart and all that, on the theory that we were probably taking something out. But finally we made it and it's a great sigh of relief. It was rather interesting, though. Driving across Poland, it happened to be a Sunday morning, and you sure were impressed by the power of the church. Because it seemed to us that everybody was walking to church as we drove through Poland.

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O.K., let's talk about, I've asked you to think about this a little bit, the interesting public figures that you have dealt with and any anecdotes that you recall, other than the U.S. Presidents because we've discussed that. Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, I think we've discussed all of those, but anybody else that you might of run into.

Heiskell:

Well, of course, in one capacity, or the other, I seemed to have run into practically everybody in the U.S.





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