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in the early evening - six or half past. I picked up a train somewhere that got me into Washington in the early morning. I told my chauffeur to go to the hotel in that city and get himself a good sleep, because he'd driven a long time.

So I turned up at the White House, having changed my clothes and freshened up at home. This was the summer when they were doing over the Executive Offices of the white House. It was late August that this all happened. I think it was on August 20th. The President, his equipment, secretaries, McIntyre, and all the other people who worked in the Presidential offices, had been moved over into the main part of the White House. The old Blue Room on the main floor of the White House, which is the great oval diplomatic reception room, was being used for the President's office, and the Green Parlor, which adjoins the Blue Room on one side, was being used for McIntyre's, Early's and the other secretaries' offices. The stenographers were in the Red Room. They were scattered all around. All the good furniture had been moved out and office furniture put in, but they still had the beautiful damask walls and that kind of thing. It still looked like a big diplomatic reception room.

I came in at ten o'clock and went in through the