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The President had a dinner engagement and I dined with Senator Newlands
who asked me to name the other guests. Secretary Houston, Senator Stone of
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Flood of the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs were the ones I wished to meet. My purpose in seeing them
was to disabuse their minds as to my activities as exploited in the newspa-
pers. I did this without actually bringing up the subject, but by letting
the conversation drift into certain channels where I could turn it in the
direction I wished. My idea was that it might save me some trouble in
the future if Stone and Flood knew more of my endeavors in Europe, and were
informed that those accredited to me were false, and could spread the truth
in Congress.
We had a delightful evening. The talk was general but was confined
largely to foreign affairs.
I returned to the White House by 10.30 in order to meet the Pres-
ident. On our way back, Houston told me of the Cabinet meeting and of how
Burleson drooled along for nearly an hour advising the President to bring
our troops out of Mexico. The President finally said, "Burleson I hardly
know what to say to you in answer". Lane spoke up and said, "Mr. President,
I would suggest that you say to him just what the Postmaster General said
to you at the last Cabinet meeting upon the same subject". This brought <del/>
general laughter, for Burleson then objected just as strongly to withdrawing
our troops as he does now to keeping them there.
The President in speaking to me about the Cabinet meeting said he
had been bored for two hours with a lot of childish talk. I replied that
he evidently did not have a very high regard for his official family, and
did not enjoy assembling with them. It reminded me of a tale of Lord
Salisbury who so seldom attended Cabinet meetings when he was Prime Minis-
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The President had a dinner engagement and I dined with Senator Newlands
who asked me to name the other guests. Secretary Houston, Senator Stone of
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Flood of the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs were the ones I wished to meet. My purpose in seeing them
was to disabuse their minds as to my activities as exploited in the newspa-
pers. I did this without actually bringing up the subject, but by letting
the conversation drift into certain channels where I could turn it in the
direction I wished. My idea was that it might save me some trouble in
the future if Stone and Flood knew more of my endeavors in Europe, and were
informed that those accredited to me were false, and could spread the truth
in Congress.
We had a delightful evening. The talk was general but was confined
largely to foreign affairs.
I returned to the White House by 10.30 in order to meet the Pres-
ident. On our way back, Houston told me of the Cabinet meeting and of how
Burleson drooled along for nearly an hour advising the President to bring
our troops out of Mexico. The President finally said, "Burleson I hardly
know what to say to you in answer". Lane spoke up and said, "Mr. President,
I would suggest that you say to him just what the Postmaster General said
to you at the last Cabinet meeting upon the same subject". This brought |
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