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Executive Offices. Stepping hopefully from his taxicab, a Job-Seeker enters a square yellow-walled lobby. Ahead of him he sees a fireplace (but never, during the Coolidge Era, a fire). A White House guard directs him up a corridor leading off the right side of the lobby. He is eyed as he advances by a Secret Service man seated or lounging at the corridor's end. Across from this sentinel sits a watchdog, Doorman Pat McKenna. Credentials are inspected and the Job-Seeker is shown through a heavy white door into the President's No. 1 Secretary...
...unwillingness to publish officially complete details of what has become news as soon as it has happened is liable to misinterpretation as the policy of a real seeker after public notice who attracts more attention by mystery, by admission and denial, and the sensationalism attendant upon uncertainty...
Every now and then, someone in Washington "speaks out of turn." Immediately, the rest of Washington is agog and remains so until it has decided whether the outspoken one is a fool, a publicity seeker, a self-important ass or a wise and forthright fellow...
...whatever package has the prettiest wrapper. Two seasons usually suffice to prove to these newcomers that the contents of the carton seldom justifies the effort spent in untying the silken ribbons, but these two seasons often leave ineradicable traces on the health and dean's office standing of the seeker after truth...
...doesn't look for reason in a parade, just as one doesn't look for rhyme in a campaign song. The seeker after truth who inquires here for that which above all things beareth away the victory must ask of the winds which far around with fragments of confetti and cottonballs strewed the streets...