Mr. Griffin. So Jack in effect would buy the meat for the meals and he would plan the meals? Is that the idea? Then you would cook them?
Mr. Senator. He would buy what would suit himself, and if I didn’t like it that is too bad.
Mr. Griffin. Did he have a regular routine of going to a grocery store once a week and going shopping for a week or how did it work?
Mr. Senator. I would probably say something like that. Of course, it all depends, you know, how much he is buying, how much he is going to buy. But he always had a lot of meat. He always kept his refrigerator pretty well filled. He’d buy grapefruits, half a grapefruit and grapefruit juice like crazy. Holy God, you know he’d wake up in the morning, the number one thing was that grapefruit. If he bought grapefruit which he’d normally buy 6, 8, 10 of them at a clip, he would cut up about 2 of them, 2 at once mind you, and put them through the wringer and wring them down, you know, the machine he had home and drink solid grapefruit juice, but from 2 of them, 2 whole grapefruits, unless he had the frozen grapefruits which he diluted with water. This is number one before he did anything, the grapefruit bit.
Mr. Griffin. Did this pattern prevail both when you were living with him the first time and when you were living with him the second time?
Mr. Senator. Oh, sure.
Mr. Griffin. Or was there some difference in your relationship?
Mr. Senator. No; there was no difference. His way of living was set before I ever heard of Jack Ruby, his way of eating.
Mr. Griffin. He would do all the shopping? Who would decide on any particular evening what the meal was going to be?
Mr. Senator. I had no say. I had no say.