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all the others have the same story to tell. Miss Bones may have let out the
secret when she told Loulie, "When Uncle Woodrow and the Colonel are together
the family feel the country is safe, and that nothing can happen".
On the other hand, Senator LaFolletee told Mrs. Harriman he was afraid I was
losing my influence with the President because some of the things he was doing
were not progressive. He did not know whether it was because I had been away in
Texas, or whether I was being superceded by someone else.
We talked of the Civil Service again and I urged him to retain Henry P.
Fletcher in Chile. He said he intended doing this regardless of Mr. Bryan.
He said, too, Mr. Bryan could say things in a diplomatic manner, but when he
wrote <sic>despatches</sic> he was so blunt that he did not dare leave such matters wholly
in his hands.
Loulie, the President, Francis Sayre, Helen Bones and I dined together and
went to see the "Pirates of Penzance."
April 16, 1914.
I was at breakfast promptly at eight and we went over the <sic>despatches</sic> from
Mexico. After breakfast we adjourned to the President's study and discussed ap-
pointments. I thought it essential to start his progressive program, and it
would not do to delay any longer. He asked me to see McAdoo, McReynolds and
Burleson and proceed along the lines we had mapped out as to patronage.
Burleson came to the White <add>House</add> to see me and I found him thoroughly in sympathy
with this plan. Later I saw McReynolds and McAdoo and told them of the new
policy to be enforced from now, and they also agreed. These three departments,
of course, cover practically all the patronage.
I had Gregory'<del/> come to the Wallace's with me to lunch so we might have
a chance to talk. After lunch I sent for Dudley Malone to come to the White
House. Some attacks have been made upon me in the "American" <sic>caliming</sic> that
I should be called by the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, to tell what I
knew about the tolls question. I asked Dudley to inform Senator O'Gorman I
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all the others have the same story to tell. Miss Bones may have let out the
secret when she told Loulie, "When Uncle Woodrow and the Colonel are together
the family feel the country is safe, and that nothing can happen".
On the other hand, Senator LaFolletee told Mrs. Harriman he was afraid I was
losing my influence with the President because some of the things he was doing
were not progressive. He did not know whether it was because I had been away in
Texas, or whether I was being superceded by someone else.
We talked of the Civil Service again and I urged him to retain Henry P.
Fletcher in Chile. He said he intended doing this regardless of Mr. Bryan.
He said, too, Mr. Bryan could say things in a diplomatic manner, but when he
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