Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-05-27
ROOSEVELT DECLARES HE MEYER
smokes AND DOESN'T KNOW HOW
A HIGHBALL OR COCKTAIL TASTES.
was as follows:

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o'clock; Mrs. Roosevelt, the children
and myself. After breakfast, if tnt
weather was good, Mrs. Roosevelt
and walked around the White House
grounds for 20 minutes or half an hour
then came over to the White House
office and as soon as reached there
Mr. Loeb came in with the mail and
papers to sign. After about half an
hour of this the senators and con
gressmen would begin to arrive. II il
was an ordinary day they would gen.
orally continue to arrive until 12 or
o'clock, but if it was cabinet day
they would generally continue to ar
rive until IL o'clock.
ON ordinary days they would stop
at IL o'clock when l went in to get
shaved. l would usually got Mr..
Loeb in and dictate to him or he
would take up with me the mail that
had accumulated during the morning
and would receive directions about
the various things that had arisen
during the morning.
Il would also frequently see some
member Of the cabinet or some man
knew intimately during that time,
or some newspaper man would be al
lowed to come in to ask questions,
Mr.. Loeb generally sitting by and
waiting until the answers had peen
given, and then resuming the worn.
Often Mr.. Loeb would follow me
out to the wash room and continue
talking with me, and getting direc-
tions and laying matters before me
while | washed my hands. / would
then 90 to lunch. Immediately atter
lunch | returned to work. might
then again work with MIR. Loeb tor
an hour or some member of the caoi-
net or other person with whom had
to talk over details of Official bust
ness.
II never in my life, while in the
White House or anywhere else, have
ever left a room for the purpose of
getting a drink between meals, and
it would have been a physical impos-
sibility for me to have left the room
for any such purpose at any period
Of my work in the Whlre House.
on February IL and IS last, l was
staying in New York with Mrs. Roose-
welt and my daughter at the Marquis
hotel at ~ East Thirty-first street
Mrs. Roosevelt and my daughter and
! had breakfast served in our apart
ments at about o'clock. Immediate
" afterwards on both days I walked
down Madison avenue to Twenty
third street across to Fourth avenue
and into the Outlook office, dong
work and seeing various people un-
til about $3.50 o'clock the first day
and until o'clock the next day, 60
ing out for few minutes for lunch.
When l left the office on Monday
walked up Fourth avenue to Thirty
first street and across to the Mar
quis hotel, where I had tea with Mrs.
Roosevelt. On Tuesday left al 3
o'clock and took the $3.50 train at the
Pennsylvania depot for Oyster Bay.
On neither day did | touch a drop Of
at any time. When in town
| usually, but not always, lunch with
some members of the Outlook staff,
and during the three years I don't re-
call an instance where / ever drank
except either milk, tea or
coffee. On those two days / never
went up Fifth avenue nor above Thir-
ty-second street.
I have not been in the Waldorf
unless at a public dinner for certain
ly three years and was not in the
Waldorf on either Of those two days.
On neither of those two days dio
go into or come out Of any building
in Forty-second street and on neither
of those two days did go above Thir-
ty-first or Thirty-second streets on
Fifth avenue. Between 4 and
o'clock the avenue is densely crowd
ed,
For the last Is years can give
you in detail just about what have
drunk and ! have given It substan-
TALLY above, and neither during those
is years or since have been Of age.
have ever under any circumstances
been in even the smallest degree I'M
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