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which I had to appear, and all that sort of thing. So I never wanted to pass up a chance to thank them for all these things.

I think it was on this occasion also that I met Maurice Tobin of Boston, who later became Secretary of Labor under Truman. Lewis Schwellenbach did not live through his first term and Tobin came in. In 1933 he was a promising young Democrat whom the Massachusetts delegation had in tow.

I remember what I'm sure strikes everybody about a white House reception - they serve pink lemonade, which I hadn't seen since my childhood. It's a kind of a watery substance with the faint flavor of lemons and some kind of coloring matter in it that made it pink, with a few banana slices floating around in it. I just remember that.

I must have left the White House at some time and gone back to my hotel, where I think I dined probably with the friends who were here from New York. It was still all a jamboree. I had not yet located Steve Early in such a way that I knew him when I saw him. I knew his name, however. I was introduced to Marvin McIntyre at the White House reception and I placed him definitely, but I did not place Early definitely until later on. They were the two who had been appointed as the President's Secretaries. I knew