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magazine at no cost, and the printing was very inexpensively done. It was very well printed but done at a low cost. And I believe it has provided a few hundred thousand dollars of income for the decoration of the White House, which has really been a wonderful bonanza.

The Queen's bedroom is actually charming. The only thing about is that the mattress is so hard that it was extremely uncomfortable for me to sleep on all night.

At dinner in the family dining room, which Mrs. Kennedy had had made, and which was papered with scenic wallpaper of the 18th Century which included scenes of the Hudson River and West Point which is very charming--the whole room is very charming--and which was lighted with candles, there were present Jack Valenti, the new aide of President Johnson, who sat next to me, Homer Thornberry, the former Congressman, and two other people, a man and wife, whose names I didn't hear. He had evidently been a Congressman from Texas.

Johnson again talked to me about the large increases of appropriations for the NIH and for research which he evidently had not been aware of while he was Vice President, and said that Senator Russell had said that Mrs. Mahoney and Mrs. Lasker had gotten more done and were the best and most effective lobbyists he had ever known in Washington. This was not entirely flattering as Senator Russell was not at all ever really in favor of medical research appropriations and was entirely worked on by Senator Hill who was his friend and with whom he exchanged favors, and we hadn't been to see him about anything for many years. I don't