Pages 95 through 130 Summary and Analysis

Lillian travels to Washington, D.C., several days before her appearance is scheduled. She is very nervous and finds it hard to sleep. She shops one day but is afraid to spend money. She shops another day and buys an expensive dress for the hearing. Her taxi driver will pick her up in the morning, several hours before his wife is operated on for throat cancer. Lillian gives him a $100 check to get his wife a gift. Lillian thinks back to a recent dinner at Leonard Bernstein's apartment in New York. A friend, who Lillian called Harry, who appeared before the Committee several weeks before tells Lillian that he memorized his answers before the hearing. Joe Rauh tells her not to be concerned—there were no answers she had to memorize.

The request she made to the House...