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Secret Service men there.

Well, that's the Inaugural Concert.

The next day, I still had a very bad cold and listened to the inauguration itself on the radio. It was bright and sunny, but very cold.

At about 1.30, I went to lunch at John Rooney's office, where he was having all his henchmen and friends, and after that I went with Mayor Wagner to the President's box, where we both sat in different spots and viewed the parade, which was really unbelievably American. There was everything from Indians, who I must say looked as if nothing had happened to them since the time of Columbus. I told Stuart Udall that it really was scandalous that the Department of the Interior had let them stay in such benighted state. He said, “Yes, we should do more about them.” To the Santa Barbarettes, who were unbelievably looking like the old Zeigfield chorus line. Look at them. Just wait till you see this.

The President's area was heated?

Only where he was, was heated. And only about 5 or 6 people could sit where he was. There was a piece of glass in front of him and the Vice-president. The rest of us were sitting right out in the cold. The stand was for about 150 people. And all the Cabinet, and the personal friends, and henchmen, and women of the President were assembled in the cold.