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ladies a chance to powder their noses. It gives them a chance to tell each other funny stories about the man they sat next to. After all, women are often quite good friends. As soon as the gentlemen appear they have to stretch their mouths, smile, look very pleasant and as if they are awfully glad to see them, but when there are only the ladies present, they can be a bit shrewish if they want to and they get a rest out of that. It's not so difficult. They often have interests in common and can well say, “I haven't seen you for a long time. What have you done about this? Are you going to Maine this summer, or are you going out West?”

So, I thinks, it's a pleasant institution. It's always been done any place I've ever lived Where the entertaining was larger than two for dinner. I think if you have just a dinner party of six, it's kind of awkward for the gentlemen to remain behind, because it means three gentlemen staying alone in the dining room. I think if it's any sizable party, I've always done it and I think people like it. I think it's comfortable. It gives, as I say, the ladies a chance to powder their noses, go upstairs if they want to, and perform all the other little arrangements that have to be thought of in the course of an evening.

Getting back to the swearing in in the Oval Room, it