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He tried to concentrate on Dannenberg's advice. You should appear confident, and yet respectful; listen carefully to the questions, and don't rush with the answers; don't smoke unless you are offered a cigarette; if you don't know an answer don't attempt to bluff; reply frankly to personal questions, for remember that the whole record of your life will be known to the board before you sit down; and above all don't give opinions, but stick to facts.

Dannenberg's phone rang, and he answered it and said, "We'll be right over." They walked out of the Institute building, and then across the street to the marble and limestone building known as New State, which had been New War but which the War Department had never occupied. Jeff remembered how in his boyhood State had shared offices with War and Navy in the rococo gray pile opposite the White House. Now State spread through twenty-six structures in Washington, and was still growing, and would continue to grow until its size and importance in the Capital was comparable to the power of the United States in the world.