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out for Mrs. Willard. He always used to stay at the Willard Hotel, saying, “We have to do something to make business for the Willard Hotel.” So I asked him to wangle me a room at the Willard Hotel, which he did. It took some wangling. The man who held the principal mortgage had to speak to the management of the hotel to get a room for the incoming cabinet officer to spend a few days in at inauguration time.

Nobody on the inauguration committee offered to get me any rooms. Nobody in the Department of Labor offered to get me rooms. They knew much more than I did that it was an overcrowded situation and that rooms had been engaged months in advance. I didn't know anything about that. I supposed you could get rooms at any hotel.

Anyhow, it was a large, old-fashioned room. Susanna burst into roars of laughter because she'd never seen any of these wound around in coils, ornate brass beds. It had very ornate and very elaborate brass beds. It had great big wardrobes with mirrored doors. It had a heavy flowered carpet and all that kind of thing. She thought it was just too amusing. It looked like something out of a Victorian novel. It was very large with a very high ceiling.

That evening I'm pretty sure we had dinner with the Hammonds and the Brueres who were personal friends. That was Captain Paul Hammond. He's a New Yorker. I think that's