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people and that no adequate provision or guidance had been made for new people.

I mention all this, because it's been brought to my mind recently (1953) by the excessive courtesy and preparation which was made for all of the incoming members of the Eisenhower administration by every department, as well as by the inauguration committee. None of them was lacking anything, I am sure, and had not only complete guidance so far as what to do and how to get around the city was concerned, but had cars provided for them. They had either a briefing, or a tabulation and descriptive memoranda about the work of the department that they were to take on or enter into. It was all very carefully done. I always suspect that many people made the same resolution I made that day - that if ever I had a successor, I'd see to it that things were done right for him and that he was not just left to the tender mercies of the crowds and accidents.

I don't recall much of anything else that Inaugural Day in 1933 until the afternoon reception, which was, I know, definitely at the White House. It was president and Mrs. Roosevelt's reception to a large number of visiting Democrats. I don't know who just was invited, but it was a very large number. There was a big crush I suppose the state committeemen and their families, members of