National Affairs: Hell

Cameramen beset Charles Francis Adams, new Secretary of the Navy, in his office. They posed him in half a dozen positions, ordered him this way and that. In silence he bore their directions. Finally one cameraman called out, "Please write something on a piece of paper, Mr. Secretary." He wrote. The cameras clicked. On the paper were the words: "This is hell. C.F. Adams."

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