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thought the world of her and thought she was the grandest woman on earth, but.... She was always hysterical, he said. She always got in the way. He never could accomplish anything because she always had to come into the limelight and she was always jealous. She was jealous of Mr. Baruch. She was jealous of everybody. In other words, he described her when he was half-drunk one night as being a lady who wanted to be given attention, wanted to be courted all her life. It was her impression that that was what a husband was for - to send her flowers and take her out. That was what she was concerned about and she never had been able to comprehend that he had a great mission in life, and so forth and so on. When he had been drinking too much he would talk like that.

He really liked his wife very much and he was really very loyal to her in lots of ways, but of course she was utterly incomprehensible to him and he to her. So she was a problem around Washington.

Then Pat Johnson came in. He was the General's son. He was a lieutenant in the Army. I don't know how he ever got in Washington, but he was very useful because he served to take his mother out of the situation. He seemed to understand his parents very well in a very nice way. He understood his parents very well. He understood his father's