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The President read that in the newspaper the next morning. I had told the President that I was going away, that I had a date in Cooperstown, New York, and asked was it all right. I was leaving early on Friday morning, I think. I'm not sure. Anyhow, I was going to be away a week. The President said, “Yes, that's all right. This is a good chance to get away. It's better now than any other time.” So I set off. I went by train as far as New York and there I picked up a car. You have to go cross- country to go to Cooperstown.

I bought a morning paper in New York and I read that the President had told Johnson to stay there with his feet nailed to the floor. I remember gasping and saying, “Well, well, well, that's another time when they missed the trick. I don't know what happened, but I will not telephone. I will not show any interest. I don't care what happens. I'm going to Cooperstown.”

So I went off to Cooperstown. I said to myself, “I don't know what they're going to do now, but I wash my hands of it. It isn't my responsibility.”

I drove most of the day and arrived at the house of my friends in Cooperstown about five o'clock in the afternoon. I was greeted by the whole Otis family (the Harold Otis family; she was Alice Wardwell) rushing out