18/41 'I was going to put you wise about that very thing. When I started out I figured on some situation like this. I argued that unless I had a very clear part with a big bluff in it I wouldn't get the confidences which I needed. So I settled I would be a big engineer--there was a time when there weren't many bigger in the United States than John S. I talked large about what might be done in Mesopotamia in the way of washing the British down the river. |