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have been quite surprised to see the Secretary of Labor in this line. I don't recall any long time residents of Washington whom I met on the line that day. They were Democrats from all over. They didn't know me from Adam. Some of them did. They recognized my name when they asked it. I never told anybody my name if it wasn't asked, because that isn't the way I do. But if anybody asked me my name, I managed to screw up my courage and tell them. It always seems like an invasion of privacy to me to ask anybody his name

It was peasant on the line. They were very friendly. Some of then were very gushy. There were men and women of all ages and kinds, all sizes and assortments. There were a lot of older men who had come from a long distance. You gathered that they were old Democrats. It had been a long time since they had had any interest in coming to an inauguration. It had been twelve years and that's a long time.

What I was conscious of particularly were the memories that were discussed of Woodrow Wilson's day. Many of them were speaking about that and asking you if you knew Newton D. Baker, if you knew McAdoo, and if you knew other people who were in the Wilson Cabinet. Many of them knew these people. Many of them had known Roosevelt when he was Undersecretary of the Navy.