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but it seems, I gathered by asking other people, that it was a little unusual, You invited members of Congress sometimes one by one when you wanted to influence them to come and visit you. Then you give them a bang-up luncheon and try to influence them that way. But the simple matter of becoming acquainted in that way was beneath the dignity of some members of Congress, or at least they might so think. They thought it might injure their status, - well little Connery evidently thought he had more status than the rest of them.

Anyway, Connery got all over that. It was his chance to blow his top and he did. That was all. I don't think he was really annoyed. I think he was just being strutty. He was showing somebody he could put people in their place. It was very crude, but that was all it was. As a matter of face, within a couple of weeks he come down to see me - not by invitation, but just came. I didn't let the other members come in a body, although they wanted to, because that would be squaring off with him. But they came one by one, and two by two. I had them to lunch and all that.

In the old building I had very great difficulty showing hospitality because there was no way you could have them for lunch without a pretty complicated arrangement of having it sent in from a restaurant. After we moved into the new building I had them to lunch all the time. We moved into the