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chummy outwardly. That was funny because you saw ladies who certainly could not have known Mrs. Roosevelt more than twenty-four hours greeting her warmly with kisses. I was surprised at it at the time, but I learned later that that was the pattern that was accepted in Washington.

Anyway I went to the east gate, went in, checked my coat, got on the line that was queuing to go up the stairs. It was a long, long wait. There were a lot of people invited and the line moved very slowly. Susanna was with me, and she was very pretty, I may say, at that time. There are still people who remember how pretty she was that day. It was the first time she'd ever been out in public really. She was still a little girl and wasn't going out formally. She just looked awfully pretty and very well - behaved. It was her first public appearance and she didn't make many more, but I did want her to go to that.

I talked to everybody in the line. I didn't know who they were. They were Democrats from Seattle Democrats from Nebraska, Democrats from Florida, Democrats from all over. Sometimes they introduced themselves, and sometimes not. Nobody was surprised to meet the new secretary of Labor. Democrats aren't that way. They aren't surprised to meet anybody. So many of these were not Washington, Democrats. If they had been experienced Washingtonians, they would