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“‘Yes, she did.’

“‘Well, what about her? What did you think of her?’

“‘Well, ‘said he,” and Ruby hastened to repeat this to me. He said to them, “She did awful well. She's an awful smart woman.” He paused and then he said, “But I'd hate to be married to her.”

Ruby came rushing down to tell me this and I roared with laughter. It seemed such an incongruous, irrelevant comment that I said to her, “You know, Ruby, it never occurred to me when I went up there that perhaps I could get a husband. It wasn't in my mind. How unfortunate I didn't think of it!” I thought I was going to testify and tell them about a project. It never occurred to me that I was there catching a husband. We laughed about it for years - she and I and many others.

The remark in that hearing room was repeated over and over again and was the basis of the stories that appeared that the Congressmen didn't like me. A Congressman had said that he didn't want to be married to me. I hadn't asked him. That was the beginning of those rumors. It was a combination of the press, and the incapacity of people to listen, or to know the meaning of words, or to put two and two together and make any sense out of an episode, I tell that now because it's a bit of color to show what life was like in those days. Those men were pretty crude, if I may say so. Not