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within forty-eight hours, as they had practically had it in hand then.

I kept saying to Miss Robinson, “When can we see the General? When will he be back?”

“Well, I don't know,” she answered.

Day after day and day after day went by. The end of the week came and we hadn't seen him. Another week went on and we couldn't see him. Senator Wagner was ranting. Finally Miss Robinson said, “I think you can see him Saturday afternoon (of the second week), but you'll have to go out to the hospital. The doctors won't let him up. He's a very sick man. You might tell the Senator that he's very sick.”

So I told the Senator that Johnson was very sick and that they had him in the hospital for observation. I said he'd been very weak and very sick and would the Senator come out to the hospital with me on Saturday afternoon. Well, the Senator wanted to go to New York for the weekend, but he gave it up.

We went out to the Walter Reed Hospital - Senator Wagner and I. We were expected. We went up to the General's room. He was propped up in bed. Pat, his son, was there, Miss Robinson and the nurse. Miss Robinson indicated to the nurse that she could go, and she did. We had been expected