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The Times-Herald gives the names of everyone they could find out was there by informal means. They had me there. They had the McGranerys; that would be natural. The only ex's that they mentioned were me, Biddle and McGrath. Then there's this paragraph:

For the statistically minded in addition to those mentioned there are now eleven other former members of the Cabinet who could have been invited to the dinner.

Then they list George Marshall and his wife, who were there, though the paper didn't know it. They came all the way from North Carolina to be there. They mentioned Louis Johnson and his wife as not there, and they were there. Julius Krug, of Interior, was not there. Clinton P. Anderson, Agriculture, was not there. James Byrnes, State, was not there. Henry Wallace was there. Claude Wickard was not there, but Mrs. Truman told me with her own mouth that the Wickards were invited. She had forgotten why they didn't come, but she was sorry they hadn't because she would have liked to have seen them. Frank walker, Postmaster General, and his wife were there.

Henry Morgenthau, Jr. was there with his bride, whom none of us had ever seen before. It was quite a shock. Personally, I think she was peculiar. I had been told she was very beautiful, very French, and very charming. I though she was very French, very plain and very unattractive. She was pink all over, even





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