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was a big dinner, but it was a good way to do it. So there were probably twenty-six or twenty-eight people there that day, something like that.

Among other people I had asked Mr. William Green to dinner. I don't think there were any other labor leaders there, but there were other people I did business with, some of the economists that we did business with, and so on. Mr. William Green was, after all, one of my constituents. It was in his field that I operated. I asked the labor leaders up to the house one by one, or two by two. But I never gave a dinner for labor leaders. I asked them with other people. Just as I never gave a dinner only for the press. Many people gave dinners for them. They just asked the press. I invited a good many people for dinner from time to time, but I asked Mr. So-and-So and his wife just as I would ask any other guest. I remember when Bess Furman came to dinner, she said, “I've never been asked for dinner before when I met Senators, Ambassadors, members of the Cabinet, and so forth. It's a great experience for me. I've never been asked to a dinner like this before.” I had never realized that, but I thought it was insulting to give a dinner just for the “press boys.”

We were having dinner, a formal dinner, of course.