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the close of morning prayer. Naturally none of the members of the prospective Cabinet left the church until he did. He finally got up. He sort of turned and smiled at all of us in a sort of friendly, fatherly way. He went along out the side door with Mrs. Roosevelt with him, and they got in their car.

We all went out the front doors. There were a couple of limousines standing outside. I didn't know how to recognize a government car in those days and I don't know that there was any way of recognizing it. None of us had been introduced on the night that we met. Although we might guess each who the other was, we had not been introduced and we didn't know. I saw this handsome, white-haired gentleman, who looked so dignified and whom I was sure was Hull because I had seen his picture. He showed his lady into a limousine. They got in and rode off. The other limousine drove up end a gentleman with a mustache, pince-nez glasses and an eagle face - southern gentleman type - who was Claude Swanson, took his little blonde, wavering, shaky little woman, all dressed up in pinks, blues and greys, always being given to very dressy clothes with lots of flowers on her hats, and showed her into the other limousine. He got in and they rolled away.

The rest of the cabinet began calling taxicabs,





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