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It might be more interesting, it's true, if you could seat people next to people that they would be congenial with, but who would know who would be congenial with who. This is really better. After you've been in Washington a long time, you see that it's all right, just as all formality is. It's easier than any informality. Informality is hard and difficult, particularly among people who are quite strangers to each other. There were times when one felt that it would be pleasant to arrange a dinner party and have people whom you knew would like each other sit beside each other, as we do in New York, but this works out all right.

I must say, however, that there were times when I got awfully sick of sitting next to Key Pittman night after night, and night after night. He was a Senator from Nevada and he was the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. So when you went to an embassy, he was likely to be asked, as the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He, of course, would be a ranking guest and for some reason or other they would select me to sit beside him. I forget what it is in the rank, but, anyhow, it brought me into a position where I was either taken into dinner by him, or sat next to him. Sometimes that would happen every night for a week. I got very tired of key Pittman. We exhausted our points of conversation.