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clothes on and we started for the pan American Union. We got a taxicab in front of the Willard, asking the door man how far the Pan American Union was. He gave us some general directions as to where it was, but Jack said, “we'd better take a taxicab.” We had a hard time getting one, but we did Almost immediately after we pulled away from the Willard door we joined a procession of taxicabs which moved at about the rate of two feet every three or four minutes. You'd inch along two feet. Then you'd inch along two feet more. Time passed. It got to be ten o'clock, eleven o'clock, and we were still in the taxicab.

We stuck to it and we finally got up to the door. Jack began to get worried. He's a very practical man. He said to the taxicab man, “How will we ever get a taxicab away from this place?”

The taxicab man roared with laughter and said, “I guess you won't. I'm going home. All the taxicabs are going home. Just the see private cars will be waiting for people.”

Jack said, “who's in the private cars?”

He said, “All the bigwigs in Washington.”

Jack and I realized at once that I was no bigwig. Nothing has been provided for me.

I don't remember seeing anybody who belonged to the Cabinet there. As I tried to go in, I saw Mrs. Woodrow