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better thing for me to do and it would not make people jealous.

On this one occasion, the dinner for the king of Greece, the Protocol Division of the State Department had seated the dinner. By this time Mr. Summerlin was gone. Somebody else was head of protocol. Anyhow, I found myself, to my astonishment, seated on the left of the King, with Mrs. Roosevelt sitting on his right. They'd seated me there. At that moment you couldn't raise a row. I was seated in a position of precedence and rank superior to that of Mrs. Hull. She was there. I spoke to her about it afterwards and said, “Dear Mrs. Hull, this was the strangest seating I ever saw. It never happened before. I want you to know I had no hand in it.”

She said, “Oh, I know you didn't, my dear. I know what your ruling has been. It's all right with me anyhow. We understand each other perfectly.”

It was the only time that I think it ever happened. Every now and then in a foreign embassy I would get seated by the ambassadorial advisers in a position which I thought slightly ahead of my proper precedence, but it didn't matter too much because they very rarely invited more than one or two Cabinet members to the same dinner. They mix them with Justices to the Supreme Court, members to the Congress and other diplomats.