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have no speed limits. Go out to the airport and get her off that plane.”

I said to McIntyre, “What in the world do you think of this?”

McIntyre said, “It's the dirtiest job anybody ever gave anybody.”

I said, “If that isn't the craziest thing to give to me. Why don't you send McIntyre out?”

McIntyre put his hands up and said, “I wouldn't go under any circumstances.”

“Well,” said the President, “you're a woman. You'll know how to say it to her.”

I said, “Don't you know that's the one thing that no woman takes from any other woman? She'll take it better from a man than she will from me.”

“No, you go.”

So both of them wished that dirty job on me. I said, “If you speak to her on the telephone yourself, Mr. President, she'll respect your authority.”

“Oh, no, you do it. Do it in a nice way.”

So I went out to the airport, sirens screaming. Something had delayed the plane so that they were still there. I was hoping secretly all the time that they would be gone. I made a pretext that I had a letter to the General, and





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