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the Cabinet of the President, without being dressed to the hilt. Mrs. Poole said, “Now, Frances, you must have some new clothes. I know you haven't time. These days are terrible for you. I'll do the shopping for you.” So Margaret went around and bought me clothes. The house was filled with boxes and tissue paper that came from the shops, dress-makers and so on. I realized almost immediately that Margaret's standard of living and propriety for a Cabinet officer was considerably higher than mine and more elaborate than mine was. Whereas I did wish to have a nice new, clean, suitable, fresh black dress with a touch of white at the throat, I hadn't thought of wanting anything that was the height of fashion. I knew I needed a new evening dress. The things that Margaret sent me to wear to the inaugural ball seemed a little extreme to me. They were not the kind of thing that I was in the habit of wearing. They were the height of fashion.

Anyhow, she sent me a lot of things. Out of them I made a couple of selections - a nice black dress to be all right in all the time and wear, as my grandmother used to say, “for mill and for meeting,” and a very handsome evening dress of black velvet, which was very suitable, very becoming, with a lot of iridescent sequins on it that made it look dressed up, handsome, suitable and nice, and a suit.