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a woman worked against my desires.

Wagner said, “I guess you're right. There's something to that. I can tell them that I've seen you often enough under tight circumstances to know that you can handle yourself all right and will be able to do it. They need have no fear.”

Well, apparently that's what he said to Hatton Sumners. He said that he knew Miss Perkins better than Hatton Sumners did, that he'd seen her in tight places before, that she always kept her head, didn't lose her head under pressure, that if she set out to make a statement, she'd make a statement and would come out stronger than she went in. Hatton Sumners practically said to him that he was afraid that it would be so embarrassing for me, that it would be very hard, that “These men on the committee say very rough things.” It was largely courtesy to protect me, a delicate female, against these rough things, and partly a kind of political fear that I wouldn't comport myself well, that I wouldn't make a hit.

The impeachment proceeding also named Gerard Reilly and James Houghteling as having conspired with me to do this. Conspiracy, of course, as Gerry once said, is very hard to prove in any case, but it's a very ugly