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anything. It just was never done. It wasn't the custom. They'd been asked all right, and they were scribbling away. After the meeting was over they all wanted special interviews and things. I was quite bewildered, because I wasn't accustomed to the Washington habit of interview.

Then the telephone would ring constantly and someone would say, “Harris & Ewing wants you to come and have a photograph made.” I said to Grace, “I can't do that.”

“Oh, go ahead and do it.”

Anyhow, I was pressured by all of them. I was sort of led by Grace Abbott up to Harris & Ewing. I said to the man at Harris & Ewing, “What in the world do you want my picture for? Why do you want a special picture of me?”

“Well, we don't know. You're a distinguished visitor to Washington and we'd like to get a picture of all the people who come to Washington. You never can tell when they might be important.”

It didn't register at the time, but when I went back on the train that sort of stuck in my mind - what did the Harris & Ewing man mean by saying, “You never can tell when it might be important.” I was quite important as it was in the State of New York. I was very important. I didn't feel anything but important. I felt I was very much master of all I surveyed. I still thought of Washington