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Congress, and so on, were there.

I got a taxicab to that from somewhere and went to the east gate. My invitation read “to the east gate,” which is the entrance opposite the Treasury which has for a long time been the entrance through which tourists go into the White House to see such part of it as is open to the public. It is where the general public enters when it is invited to a very large reception.

I did not know, at that time, nor was there any way by which I could have known, that members of the Cabinet are always supposed to have special privileges. I did not learn for several days that members of the Cabinet in Washington life are regarded as members of the family of the President. They are treated with the same respect as members of the family. Their rights to the White House, to what's going on, and to be put through on a telephone call directly to the person desired, are treated exactly as though they are sisters, or brothers, or daughters, or sons of the President. Whenever the president and his wife are present at any occasions, members of the Cabinet and their wives are entitled to be very close to them, be on very cozy terms with them, be seated around them, and so forth and so on. They are always to be very cozy and very