 because of his dinner with Booker T. Washington and his support for equal rights. And yes, you're absolutely right. Connie test-run the dinner. She had a dinner with Booker T. Washington in New York. Unfortunately, we don't know the contents of the discussion during the dinner, but this was not unusual for Connie and Theodore to work together and sort of figure out what should be done in a certain circumstance. When Theodore was governor of New York,