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would be in a racket somewhere.”

Roosevelt said he liked the direct method of doing things and he liked to make it direct.

When I got back from England, my husband was on the dock. We had a signal that we used to greet each other with. All my family had had that signal for years. Instead of waving our handkerchiefs back and forth in the usual way we used to wave them slowly up and down. That meant that in a crowd we could recognize each other. I saw this big handkerchief going up and down and I knew that that was my husband. When we got nearer, I saw that he had in his hand a picture from the New York Times. He was putting his forefinger on his lips and I understood at once that he meant, “The newspaper will ask you questions. There is something in the New York Times today that you probably haven't seen. Keep your mouth shut. Don't say anything.” He held the Times up and kept putting his finger on his mouth. I had no way of knowing what was there, nor could he convey that.

It was true that the reporters reached me almost immediately. They said, “We've been waiting for you. What about this charge that the window cleaners are making?”

I said, “You'll have to excuse me, gentlemen. I'm arriving and I'm awfully busy.”