I suspected the room inside had changed little since the ship's debut in 1965.
"We have many crosses," said the mayor, Anna Rita Coletti, in an interview inside that room on Wednesday.
However, you chose to view the matter, one thing is true: nobody can place Clinton inside that room at the Mayflower.
I had looked into a room, unlike any other, and when I lifted my gaze, that room was inside Hasanaj's brain, who lay staring straight ahead under the drape in the larger room, filled with doctors and nurses and machines and equipment, and beyond that room there was an even larger room, warm and dusty and made of asphalt and concrete, beneath a chain of green mountains and a blue sky.
He fell back into that room onto an MEP that was stood just inside that room.
David Axelrod, another, complained afterwards of the IOC's decision that there were "politics inside that room".
But on this day, the steel tables inside that room sat empty.
In the wake of that controversy, George O'Grady, the chief executive, said: "We can't really believe anybody in the committee room has used this information... but we are appalled that someone inside that room has perhaps inadvertently leaked it.
"I don't view this as a repudiation of the president or the first lady," Axelrod told CNN. "I think that there are politics everywhere, and there are politics inside that room".
Given that the rooms inside the Barbican flats are based, as far as I can judge, on Le Corbusier's modular system of proportion (a modern-movement reworking of ideal Vitruvian classical proportions), flock wallpaper and Regency-style settees make as much sense here as a formula one Ferrari engine would inside a Nissan Micra.
The arrangement of the rooms inside has been changed many times over the years.
