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M. Francois. They do so well with my hair. They do it just right.” Of course, a girl will do just as well, but they're more slapdash and they don't flatter quite so much. So it was a man who was alleged to have said this. I'm sure that he did say it, but he was lying, because these ladies didn't know anything about it. I'm sure that none of the ladies who were attached to members of the Cabinet knew about these things. It would have been most preposterous if they had.

Of course, there were women here in Washington who vowed after the fact, that they had known all about the atom bomb, all about uranium and all that. I know they hadn't. It was extra-ordinary the number of people close to the excitement of government who've just got to claim that they knew all about it. It's very extraordinary. The Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy knew about it all, but the rest of us didn't know. I didn't know anything. I knew there was an awful lot of research going on on secret weapons, but whether it was more radar stuff or what it was, I didn't know. I didn't even know that anything was going on in New Mexico. I'll admit that when I read all the details of the atom explosion, I began to connect vague things that I had heard about metallurgical research. I had heard about an expedition going out into the Rocky Mountains to go over the tailings of old mines that had been abandoned, looking for something. I didn't know what they were looking for,





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