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Thus, I didn't know what he wanted done partly because of his nature, partly because I hadn't had to submit him to the test of more than lip service, and not even to that test for all the ideas that I had in mind, because many of the things that I would recommend be done at the federal level, had been done in New York before he became Governor.

So on the evening of February 22nd I went with this little slip prepared. I went to the house. The house was strangely disorderly on the ground floor, showing at once that although it had been a nice, quiet private house where people lived with some evidence, it had now become a general camping place for reporters, politicians, policemen, detectives. I believe the Secret Service was there. He was being Secret Service-protected after he was President-elect.

The hall wasn't very wide. It was one of these square halls with a white pillared stairway with turns on landings out of it - very abrupt turns. That little hall was just piled high with overcoats, hats, umbrellas, briefcases, notebooks, sheafs of paper, red envelopes, any amount of things, not only on the chairs and tables, but on the floor. There were smoking stands, ash trays, cigarette stubs. The rather handsome Chinese rug on the floor attracted my attention by its foul condition. It was just terrible. It was dirty. It was rumpled up. It had wrinkled up and