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us that I doubt if I did much of anything in that way. I remember dictating a lot of letters to Miss Jay and going over the mail some time on Sunday. I went over a lot of congratulatory mail that had come in, asking her to answer those. There were at least two classes - the intimate and the no intimate letters. That sort of work was piling up.

I had said that I meant to go back to New York Sunday night. Early had said, “I don't think you'd better go ‘til Monday, if you can.”

I had said, “All right.” So I was giving Miss Jay instructions as to what to have done in the New York office on Monday morning. All these other people who came down from the Department in New York were all going back on Sunday night.

I had arranged this reception for these people in a small private parlor in the Willard Hotel. They all come in. They'd had a lovely time. They'd been everywhere. There were several special things going on during the day on Sunday. They had been to all of those. They had all had a fine time. They had all seen the parade. There must have been a parade, because I remember that they said that they had seen me on the reviewing stand with the President. That had given them their greatest satisfaction. That was what