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I discovered early that he had had a very interesting experience as a young man in Alaska. Really, he was very interesting on the subject. By virtue of asking him about Alaska for almost a year, I was able to keep the conversation on a topic that at least was interesting to him and was not too dull for me.

When it came to anything else, he was a total loss. He had no conversational abilities. He had no general knowledge, no general culture. He wasn't interested in art, literature and the drama. He could talk about politics, Nevada and Alaska. It wasn't always wise to talk about politics with Key Pittman because he had a very loose tongue. It wasn't very wise to talk with him about personalities, because he nearly always repeated what was said to him. So you had better keep off that subject. As for foreign affairs, although he was the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, I used to think it very unwise to introduce the subject, with him. He was likely to be vituperative about the subject. Sometimes after the third course and the wine he got kind of talkative. He would sometimes say very unpleasant things about a country which was an ally, or a neighbor of, or a cooperator with, the country in whose embassy we were dining. He could do that and wasn't diplomatic. So I knew not to introduce those subjects