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over by train if she's got to be there. Let her go to the office of the NRA, but not stand up in the front of the reviewing stand and be photographed. If he needs her, she ought to go over to the office and stay in the office during the public appearances. The only thing that she does is to keep him from drinking. You know that, don't you?”

“Does she?” he said. “Does he drink too much?”

I said, “You know that as well as I do. You must have heard it by this time.”

“Well, yes, but it's not too much, is it?”

I said, “No, but sometimes it's in public. Anyway Ed McGrady can do that job of keeping him sober just as well as she can. That's what Ed McGrady goes for, too.”

He said, “Anyhow, Frances, you go tell her not to go. Tell her she's not to go to New York. They don't want her and you tell it to her.”

I said, “Now, Mr. President, what a job to give me!” He called McIntyre in to tell him I was going to do that. I said, “I bet you they're starting now.”

McIntyre called up Hugh's office and said, “They've gone to the airport and the plane's going soon.”

I had just time to get there. The President said, “You take a White House car, Frances, and get there. They