That was after the war began. See, Baruch came with the war. One thing
that was very remarkable and pleasant about my days in Washington was
that the Secretary of the Navy had a yacht, the
Dolphin, and Father wanted to examine naval stations and so forth
in New England. Or maybe, as some people do now, he wanted to go there,
and the naval stations
[Laughter] were
just an excuse for going. But we would sail all along the New England
coast in the summertimes. And I remember swimming off the side of the
Dolphin in awfully cold water, but we loved it.
And I think it's bigger than the
Sequoia that the
President had today. And that was, of course, an aspect of magnificence
in my childhood that of course hadn't attended it in Raleigh. And the
first Mrs. Woodrow Wilson—
[interruption] The first Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was a lady very
much like the ladies we'd known in Raleigh. She was, of course, a
southern woman and seemed a perfectly natural person for us to be with,
and she was fond of children. And we'd go to the White House right often
when she was there. And I had a very great friend, Admiral
Winterhalter's wife. She was a childless woman. She had at one time been
a great actress. I've forgotten who she was as an actress. And I think
she thought of me as the kind of kid she would like to have had if she'd
had a child. And he was made Admiral of the Pacific Squadron, and they
wanted to take me with them out there to stay a year. And it was a
fascinating idea, but I think my parents said, "Well, he'd better stay
home and go
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woman, and after I left Washington there was some very popular play in
New York calling for a leading woman, not a young one. And I've
forgotten it. She played this lead on the road. He was an awfully nice
man, only had one eye. And my father had to brush off people who wanted
to put him back in the closet because he had a German name, and Father
thought he was a great officer and advanced him. She was a great friend
of mine.