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business of the government, and certainly not when it's not been decided. I was walking beside Mr. Rainey at the time. He was taking with me politely and patronizingly, telling me how happy he hoped I would be in Washington, and so forth and so on. I didn't know what to do with the press, whether I told what everybody had said, or whether I shut up, which was my instinct. So I turned politely to Mr. Rainey and said, “I think probably the Speaker knows more than I do.” He made some pompous remarks of no consequence whatever. Then one of the men said, “By the way, what do we call you?” looking straight at me.

I said, “Well, my name is Perkins.”

“Yes, I know, but what do we call you? How do we address you?”

I said, “Miss Perkins.”

“Well, we say ‘Mr. Secretary’ to the Secretary of state, and ‘Mr. Secretary’ to the Secretary of the Interior. What do we say to the?”

I said, “I don't know. ‘Miss Perkins’ is all right with me.”

Then I said, “Well, perhaps Mr. Rainey knows. Mr. Rainey is the Speaker of the House. He probably knows better than I do what you should call me.” They were citing “Mr. Secretary” for this or that person, “Mr. Attorney