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eugene McCarthy, poet, author, former U.S. Senator from Minnesota and
candidate for the presidency,
now lives in the F.T. Valley near Slate Mills.
courses were relatively quiet, Henry’s integrally so and mine with the help of the gravy. I was given pecan pie for dessert, a dessert which, under ordinary circumstances - with crisp pecans and crisp pie crust, might be slightly noisy. On this day, however, nuts, filling, and crust had been baked into a homogenous, moist, quiet unity. Henry had sherbert, potentially quiet, but because it appeared to be frozen rather than soft, it was spoon-rattling as he pursued it in the sherbert glass.
I have concluded from limited experience that a quiet luncheon at the White House has its tone set not by talk or music but by the menu. The soup, for example, would have to be cream of mushroom or a lobster bisque, perhaps even vichyssoise, none of which induce lip-smacking or slurping. The salad would have to be a quiet one, without celery, carrots or radishes, placed, perhaps, on a bed of wilted lettuce. Shellfish, especially lobster, requiring the noisy crackling of shells would be excluded immediately, whereas meat loaf or various kinds of pasta would be a safe, reasonably sound-proof main course.
Dessert might prove to be troublesome, as I hinted before. The problem lies not in the substance of the dessert, but in the incidents of eating it - spoon striking glass in the case of frozen desserts, or fork on plate in dealing with tough crusts, or even a spoon pursuing an elusive bit of Peach Melba or a brittle Baked Alaska.
Such are the distinctions that must be made at the higher levels of governmonf uarvipp
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