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I had taken the train I expected to take, but I gave this cock and bull story about my delay and how I was so sorry to have missed them, and so forth, but we'd all see each other at supper. Then it turned out they'd had dinner. Mary had told them that I'd expected to be back for dinner. So I played to that all right. I fully had expected to be back for dinner and some dreadful catastrophe having to do with the government had intervened, and so forth. They took it all right.

It was all in the society columns of the paper the next morning. Mary had arranged that. Mary had telephoned to the society reporter and told all about the party, with Miss Frances Robinson being there, and so forth. The party did its duty. It pacified the General. It served to hold things for a while. Afterwards, of course, people got cynical about the whole thing.

By the way, Anna Rosenberg was Robbie's girl friend. She had not yet come to Washington. Nobody had heard of Mrs. Rosenberg at that time, but she was a close chum of Robbie's. They had been friends for years. When Miss Robinson went to work for the Democratic National Committee during the campaign of '32, she was very good but they needed more people. Bobby Straus said, “Haven't you got some friends?