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driver go through?

“Nope, Can't be done,” he said. “Look at the crowds of people. Somebody'll get killed. Nothing con go beyond this point. You should have gone other way or come earlier.”

Anyway, suffice it to say that the inauguration committee had made no plans whatever for the incoming Cabinet. I did notice that all of the members of the outgoing cabinet had been taken in their limousines provided by a grateful government for their past services. I noticed this after I was up on the platform. They had been taken up the outside way, not through that crowd at the foot of capitol Hill, taken the proper way into that underneath part of the Capitol and had entered at the little door that we were supposed to enter at - the little door that leads you upstairs, through the statuary Hall and out into the great portico of the Capitol where the platform was. They had all been provided for nicely. I didn't know at that time that in every department there were two or three cars - not one, but two or three - that were available for those purposes. Mr. Hull and Mr. Swanson both had departmental cars. Hull and Swanson were Senators and had been in Washington a long time. They knew their way around. They knew enough to know that they had a right to it and that all they had to do was