"I haven't any present intention of leaving Washington."
"I should doubt very much the suggestion here, that the War Department has made a recommendation."
"I should try to deal justly with it, as I should with any other request for a pardon."
"It is rather ineffectual to start on a trip and have to cancel it."
"That has never come to my attention."
"Any of you that wants can have my chair."
"I notice some of the representatives of the press take advantage of the opportunity to sit down."