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this. He called me up that same night and said, “I hear that some woman is going to be put on this thing to go for a ride. You promised me that there was to be no junket.”

I said, “The proposal has been made to me, Gerard, and I have said no.”

“Good,” he said, “that's right. You're the kind of woman I like. You're all right. You're a man of your word.”

I went to the boat on the morning I was to sail. My secretary was with me because I had a few last minute things to give her. A telephone call came from Lubin to the boat to tell me again that the Senator was wild! “Well,” I said, “what can he do to me? I'm about to sail. How did you get through? This boat will sail in fifteen minutes. They're putting the passengers ashore now. This is a ship-to-shore telephone and they'll disconnect it in a few minutes. What can Wagner do to me?”

“Well,” he said, “I just thought I'd tell you.”

Well, before I got out of that purser's office where the ship-to-shore telephone was and the ship was really making ready to cast off, the President's office was calling me. It was McIntyre. He said, “The boss wants to speak to you.” So the President came on the wire. He said, “Frances, what's all this fuss about this woman Bob Wagner