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all around. I remember being annoyed and disturbed, making rather quick motions to keep my back toward the camera. The pictures that were published in Life a few weeks later will indicate that my back was resolutely toward the camera most of the time. I didn't know one man from another. At any rate the nightclub band showed, with its vulgar, ostentatious look of a gay time tonight. The glasses on the tables showed up, an array of liquor and wine glasses before every person. That, of course, was evidence of what the Democrats did when they went to a convention - they sat around and ate rich food, drank too much wine, went into regular nightclub orgies. That's what it looked like and I'm sure that that's what Life Magazine intended it to look like. I may say it did look like that when the pictures came out, and when they took the pictures I jolly well knew that it would. It's one of those things you have to face when you're in politics. You can't do anything about it.

That dinner lasted forever. It was terribly long drawn out. It was terribly late before the dinner finally broke up. Then, I understand, many people went on to later parties. I had my date with my friend in the soda fountain so I didn't have to go off to any other party.





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