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the day after Inauguration.

I went on the 10th of April. That was when I left for the University of Illinois. Because I felt a little low in my mind--you know, you always do, when you've got to get out of a job you've liked, and I was sort of wondering what I would do next and how I would move out with dignity. It was sort of a shock. I'd had a good many shocks in the course of one year, as a matter of fact. I had quite a few that year.

So, then the University of Illinois man came to see me--which was before Inauguration. It was in January that Robert Fleming came in to see me --or I guess he wrote me a letter. He had this idea, you know, of my lecturing on campus for six weeks, and what would I think of it, and would I like to talk it over.

I had one or two other little things, too, but I was very much taken with this. First, because it took me out of Washington. I could just dust up and go, you know, and be away--which I thought was a better idea, rather than hovering around, having everybody in the Department telephoning to you what's being done now.

So I told him, “Yes, I would be interested, I'd like to talk about it.” He came East, and we talked about it. So, before Inauguration day, even, we had talked about that. He