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has been carrying for a year or more and now wishes to have paid. So the visit
with me cost Baruch $8500.00 which, I must say, he seemed entirely willing to pay.
The President, Mrs. Wilson, Miss Bones and I had dinner alone. After din-
ner we went to the upstairs sitting room and talked upon general subjects for
awhile. The President read several chapters from Oliver's "Ordeal by Battle".
He was interested in what I had to tell him of Oliver, and we discussed the dif-
ferent points Oliver made in the chapters read, agreeing to some and disagreeing
as to others.
The President declared his intention of writing some things which were on
his mind after he retired from office. I <sic>suprised</sic> him by advising against his
writing at all. Mrs. Wilson said, "You astonish me. Why, that it was he does
best." The President spoke up, saying: "You do not understand, House is
afraid to have me write." This accusation I had to acknowledge was true. I
thought he would go out of office with such a tremendous reputation that it would
be a pity to endanger it by writing or doing anything that might make people
think less of him. The President agreed in general to this, and said he had
no notion of writing about his administration, but expressed a desire to write
one book which he has had long in mind and which he thought might have an in-
fluence for good.
He said, "I write with difficulty and it takes everything out of me".
This estimate of himself in that field of his endeavors would surprise the gen-
eral public since he is considered such a fluent writer. I asked how long it
took him to write his April second Address to Congress. He said ten hours. I
offere<del/>d the opinion that his January 22nd speech to the Senate was a much abler
document because it had more original thought. His April 2nd speech pleased, I
thought, because it reflected the public mind, both here and in the Allied coun-
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has been carrying for a year or more and now wishes to have paid. So the visit
with me cost Baruch $8500.00 which, I must say, he seemed entirely willing to pay.
The President, Mrs. Wilson, Miss Bones and I had dinner alone. After din-
ner we went to the upstairs sitting room and talked upon general subjects for
awhile. The President read several chapters from Oliver's "Ordeal by Battle".
He was interested in what I had to tell him of Oliver, and we discussed the dif-
ferent points Oliver made in the chapters read, agreeing to some and disagreeing
as to others.
The President declared his intention of writing some things which were on
his mind after he retired from office. I |
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