Arizona republican., 1914-03-21
Says He Has Been Pictured in So Many Different Lights He Cannot Recog- nize References to Him. self in Papers
HAS NOT SEEN
 WASHINGTON YET
Promises to Return to Ma tion's Capital Some Day and Have a Good Look at the Great bile Buildings
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATCHl

! guest of the National Press club at a house. warming, President Wilson tonight unbosomed himself to the newspaper men and gave a word pie ture of the president of the United l States as he sees himself.
 i He declared that all descriptions printed of him heretofore have de- sCribed man who is stranger to him He denied he is a cold, precise, unemotional thinking machine, piece of icy intellect. He wanted people to believe that he is plain human being, likely to be swayed by winds of affection
 q have constant embarrassment to restrain the emotions within me. You may not believe it, but some 1 times I feel like the fire of a distant volcano
 If you do not see the lava boil over it is because you are not near 1 enough to see the cauldron boiling. Truly, gentlemen, in the position l | occupy there is a sort of passionate sense of being connected with my l feIloWmen in a peculiar relationship 1 articles about myself, but never have read an article in which I recog- nized myself, and have come to the conclusion it must be some kind of a fraud. because I think a great | many of these articles were written in absolute good faith.
 | T tiemble to think of the variety and falseness of the impressions l make. and that 1 am a cold, thinking machine which I can adjust to cir constance and not allow to be moved by winds of affection or emo- tion of any kind. but turns like a searchlight on anything presented to 1 the attention that makes the think ing machine work
 ! If I seem circumspect it is be- cause I am so diligently trying not to make any colossal blunders. The office of president is so much greater than any man can ever be, the most 1 a president can do is to look grave enough and self possessed enough to fill it
 T have mixed first and last with all sorts and classes Of men; there are mighty few kinds of men that have to be described to me, and there are mighty few kinds of experiences that have to be described to me, and when 1 think of the number of men who are looking to me as the repre- sentative of party, with the hopes for all varieties of salvation from the things they are struggling in the I ct nf makes me tremble not only with a sense of my own inadequacy and weakness, but as if I were shaken by the very things that are shaking them.
 There are blessed intervals when forget by one means or another that I am the president of the United States. One means by which I for get it is to get a rattling good de- tective story, get after some imagin- ary offender and chase him all over. preferably any continent but this. because the various parts of this continent are becoming painfully suggestive to me. Postoffices and many other things stir "reminiscences There are postoffices to which I do not think of mailing a letter, which can't think of without trembling with the knowledge of the heart burning struggle there was in con- nection with getting somebody in stalled as postmaster
 Now, if I were free I would come not infrequently to these rooms You know, l was never in Washington but a very few hours until I came last year, and I never expect to see the inside of the public buildings in Washington until this term is over, and the minute I turn up anywhere l am personally conducted to beat the band. The curator and every other blooming official turns up, and they show me so much attention I don't Isee the building. I would have to say Stand aside and let me see what you are showing me- and some day after I am through with this office II am going to come back to Wash ,ington and see it. Meantime I am in the same category as the national museum. and yet even that is inter- esting to me.
 It would De great pleasure, II unobserved and unattended, I could resort to any place in Washington chose. I have sometime thought oi disgusting myself. if it were moi against the laws to disguise ones self But if I could disguise myself and not get caught I would go out, be 6 free American citizen once more and have a jolly time. I might ther
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