It showed very clearly that the President intended to do everything himself and to allow no one to act for him unless it was upon some highly technical matter.

All actual decisions in regard to the terms of peace which involved policy were thus forced to await his time and pleasure.
Even after Mr.Wilson returned to Paris and resumed his place as head of the American delegation he was apparently without a programme.

On March 20, six days after his return, I made a note that "the President, so far as I can judge, has yet no definite programme," and that I was unable to "find that he has talked over a plan of a treaty even with Colonel House." It is needless to quote the thoughts, which I recorded at the time, in regard to the method in which the President was handling a great international negotiation, a method as unusual as it was unwise.

I referred to Colonel House's lack of information concerning the President's purposes because he was then and had been from the beginning on more intimate terms with the President than any other American.

If he did not know the President's mind, it was safe to assume that no one knew it.
I had, as has been stated, expressed to Mr.Wilson my views as to what the procedure should be and had obtained no action.