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inaugurations when I know that was the fact. The fact that it was done at least a couple of other times is very likely to have, in my memory, formed the impression that it was done at this first inauguration, but I am not positive and don't really know. There are certain other things that happened later in the day that make me think that perhaps we hadn't been asked to the White House until later in the day.

Anyhow, we had to get downtown. Henry and I Joined Ilo and Susanna. We spoke to other members of the new Cabinet who were on the platform and to other people whom we knew. We spoke to members of the Court if we knew them. Then people began to conspire to get downtown. All I remember is being in a terrible swirl of people, a perfect maelstrom of people, in that opening where the Treasury Building is and where the Washington Hotel is. There's a big open space there and I remember being caught in there in a perfect mob of people, just a jam, a crowd. We couldn't walk one way or the other.

After the ceremony at the Capitol we tried to get down the Hill to the White House. I found myself on foot somewhere on Pennsylvania Avenue in a crowd. Whatever vehicle had brought us down the Hill had long since been abandoned. I was there with Susanna, and I think the