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Health Association who heard it didn't seem to be particularly enthusiastic about him or the speech. There is something singularly unenthusiastic about the people in the Public Health Association. The affairs was held in the Palace Hotel in San Francisco and Florence and I stayed in the Fairmont.

I remember that Stevenson was going to Ventura to make a speech, and his idea of asking you to do something interesting and pleasant was to along to Ventura, which would take about an hour in a plane, there and back, and to go through a kind of a supper where there would be not less than a thousand people who would come and shake his hand and eat supper out of a box. Then there'd be a speech and then we'd fly home with about 25 other people, including Bill Wirtz, who was with him on this particular trip. I didn't see that this was the most amusing thing on God's earth, so I went to see the Royal Ballet at the opera house instead.

How did he take to this?

Oh, he didn't mind if I had gone or not. I think he thought it was one of these things I should have been interested in, but it just sounded too exhausting.

The next day we flew to Libertyville, where I think I stayed for a day, and he was totally unfatigued by his campaigning in California and not at all sure that he wasn't going to be offered the job of Secretary of State. I think it came as a