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Conger Reynolds correspondence, 1917
1917-12-16 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Goodenough Page 2
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memory. I know, though, that I got some of the preliminary details out of the way. I spent most of the morning "putting on the dog" in preparation for my triumphal entry into the war department and getting up the reports I was to present. At 11 I sauntered nongshallahntly past the guards and invaded the sacred precincts where our part in the big war is being planned and directed. I passed up the secretary of war. A lot of those bothersome newspaper people were hanging around his door, and I feared they might ask me to express my opinion about when the war will end. I got as near calling on the adjutant general as to register in a book outside his door. Then I really did call on a few of the dignitaries whom I knew. I met Colonel Leitch of the general staff in the hallway. He had been C.O. of the training camp for a month, and
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memory. I know, though, that I got some of the preliminary details out of the way. I spent most of the morning "putting on the dog" in preparation for my triumphal entry into the war department and getting up the reports I was to present. At 11 I sauntered nongshallahntly past the guards and invaded the sacred precincts where our part in the big war is being planned and directed. I passed up the secretary of war. A lot of those bothersome newspaper people were hanging around his door, and I feared they might ask me to express my opinion about when the war will end. I got as near calling on the adjutant general as to register in a book outside his door. Then I really did call on a few of the dignitaries whom I knew. I met Colonel Leitch of the general staff in the hallway. He had been C.O. of the training camp for a month, and
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