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Washington code, either socially or on the professional administrative side. I want to talk later about the administrative and professional problems which arose just because we were not prepared to know what the scheme and system of relationships is on the professional side.
Within the following two or three days, Mrs. Owen Roberts, my friend who is the wife of the Justice of the Supreme Court, gave me Anne Squire's book, Social Washington, which has to do with social etiquette in Washington. That tells you who sits next to who, what the order of protocol is going in, who calls on who, and all that sort of thing. Mrs. Roberts gave it to me with a good laugh and said, “You'll need this more than you know. You better read it. Don't take it for granted that what was good manners in New York or Boston is good manners here.” She just said it laughingly and jokingly, but it's true. That was on the social side.
There is no such publication, and there is no guide, as to what are the professional and administrative relationships between the members of the executive branch of the government and the members of the legislative branch of the government, or the members of the judicial branch of the government. Of course, except for the Department of
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