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    "ocrText": "3/14/54: Reel 5, Track 1, Page 10\nwas a very effective rule. There was one rather entertaining thing that\nhappened before we started off* for San Francisco. Foster Dulles came to\nsee me about what he described as \"the roles that we should play at San\nFrancisco.\" So I sai d that whatever roles he wanted me to play I'd be\nglad to play. He said that there were two things to be done: one was to\npreside over the Conference, which would be sort of an honorary job\nwithout any onerous duties, and that usually fell to the Foreign Minister\nAN\nof the host state, and ordinarily that was what I would do. The other\none was to be what he called the \"Floor Menager\"--the floor leader of the\nfight, and that would require a good deal more knowledge of the treaty\nand its intrácacies than I had, and he thought it would be wise if he\nwere the floor manager. It seemed to me that he had correctly appraised\n?\nthe situation, and it surely was not a pleasant task to argue with him,\nso I said, \"Surely, anything you want to do we'll do.' So that's what\nwe did, and it turned out that he had made a most able guess as to what\nwas going to happen. At the meeting in San Francisco, there was-from\nmy own point of view, the most vivid recollection I have was that I was\nreally very ill indeed while this meeting was going on. The afternoon\nthat the meeting was going to convene we were having a nux caucus with\nthe Latin American group-Foster and I and Luke Battle and all the Latinos,\nand I proceeded to faint in the middle of this meeting and had to be\nof the\ncarried room. The President was in San Francisco, and my\nsecretary telephoned to get hold of his doctor. The President got very\nx excited and the doctor came down and I was given various shots of one\nthing or another and taken home and put to bed, and the meeting\nconvened at 7:30 that night. So I was taken out of bed and brought down\nto the Municipal Auditorium, or the Opera House in San Francisco, really\nfeeling quite badly. My only problem was whether I could stand up long\nenough to say the few words I had to say to open the meeting and intro-"
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