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We said, “That's very easy. You know how Washington is. Mrs. Johnson will be very much in demand and very popular. Is she going to stay?”

“I don't know. I suppose so. I don't know where I'll put her. I haven't got any time to look after her.”

We said, “Well, General, you've got an apartment at the hotel. She'll make herself at ease.”

“Oh no, she's not that kind of a woman. She doesn't know how to take care of herself. She won't make herself at ease. I'll have to look out for her. I'll have to entertain her.”

“We'll entertain her,” Mary said. “I'll see to that. Tell you what, she's coming tomorrow? Well, we'll have a dinner party for her tomorrow night, General Johnson, right here.”

That was arranged so that when she arrived General Johnson was able to tell her that she was to have a dinner party given to her by Mrs. Rumsey the next night. Mary telephoned around and we got a big dinner party going. That was Mrs. Johnson's introduction to Washington. Whereupon, she was fast and firmly on us, because Johnson had told her that we were his best friends and that Mrs. Rumsey would look after her, and so forth and so on.