he would -- there's wonderful correspondence between sam and his client, barlow.arlow writes and says it's the most candid letter writing about blogging i've ever seen. barlow will write and say, i want this so passed or disable writeback and say, okay, it's going to cost you. i'm proposing for dinners at $500 each and here are the people in i'm suggesting, but you do want to have? those dinners are pretty much all mail and more purposeful. but he often, often had dinners where he would just invite people he thought would be congenial. they did lots of foreign ministers and their american-born lies, members of congress that he knew from different aspects of his life. they were really more cultivating dinners. women would be president. i don't have any evidence that they withdrew while the men spoke cigars, whether or not it was to talk business. and sam was very respectful of women's opinions at these dinners. everybody who had dinner at sands wrote home about them and that's one of the reasons we know so much about these dinners. and they would talk about, you kn

sam's special pelagic off to begin with take and champagne with barlow for another client footing thell. when in new york, sam's favorite delmonico spirit but here in washington to rotate it is lobbying dinners for more than a dozen deaths among formosa telecom of the metropolitan club and occasionally john chamberlain's new club. when it came to special dinners, for no more than seven or eight guests come on the vulture's restaurant on 15th street or the treasury building owned by belgian john vulture would do. as he had done when lobbying for paraguay before the war, sam gave his most select dinners and in the privacy of his own home. there he had a two-man staff, his shaft and and a soil valley secretary irishman gerry valentine a horse handicapper who sam's second set of eyes and ears around town. sam's kitchen was his laboratory in which event: a rules, recipes and brands. jarreau spring chickens is to spoil them. to split them out the back and broil them. whether in consultation with culture shock or zone, sam took great care in composing every milford has lobbied dinners to the