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sat down beside the bed and tried to read to him - I saw he hadn't recovered enough coordination to read - the sections which were in dispute. It didn't register. He wasn't taking it in, but he knew what it was about. He knew that it was Wagner trying to make a permanent kind of glorification of his little committee. That's what he saw really. What he saw was Wagner running out of the NRA, Wagner trying to make something permanent, something that would give him glory. He kept calling it “The Wagner Committee.”

Well, that was the most painful experience we had with him. I went on two other occasions - once before and once later - to the Walter Reed Hospital to see him, but I never found him so completely out of touch after having such a long bat as that. He wasn't in contact with the other members of the human race who had come to deal with him.

Since I've been asked, I do remember a picnic that the Wallaces asked us to. They asked Peek, Mrs. Mary Rumsey, Johnson and myself to go with them one evening on the boat that feeds the ducks on the Potomac. The Wallaces were living at the Wardman Park, I think. They were not in a position to entertain in those early days - perhaps it was in the first summer or autumn that this happened.