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after this Inauguration Day meeting without anybody's knowing that they had been in Washington. The meeting on Inauguration Day was secret because I know that Delaney, my chauffeur at the time, was involved. I had made Delaney take a private car - not a department car, but a car belonging to Miss Jay or someone else in the Department - to go to meet them at Union Station so that the Department of Labor car wouldn't be seen meeting somebody. Delaney was to bring them to an office on G Street. I had borrowed the use of the car so that the meeting would be secret. I made all these elaborate plans, sent Delaney to meet them, and they were to be brought directly to the office through the back door.

After they had been brought to my office, I was called into the other room for a telephone call. Delaney was there. He said to me, “Private, Miss Perkins? Did they say this had to be private? Do you know how these fellows came down here? They came down in a great big private car, all trimmed with brass trimmings, with a little plazza on the back of it. It's out there in the Pennsylvania Railroad Station drawn right up close on one of the sidings. Anybody can see it. Everybody in the railroad station knows that's the General Motors car. It'll be all over town by night. What did they do that for