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parade in 1936 very plainly. I recall the inauguration parade in 1940 very plainly. This business of having these vulgar, cheap floats ad infinitum and ad nauseam had not begun, however. It had not taken hold in anybody's mind. I'm not sure that the beauty parades in Atlantic City had begun, but if they had, it hadn't occurred to anybody to copy them on a serious occasion. These floats in inauguration parades of this date look just like that. That's where they sprang from. The 1949 floats and the 1953 floats looked like that. They were a terrible, dreadful sight, just horrible.

However, I'm pretty sure there was a parade in 1933. I think it was probably from the capitol down to the white House. It was rather short and had detachments of state guards and state military units riding or marching with their Governors. It was something of that sort. At any rate, it certainly didn't make any great impression on me.

That's where I may have been at lunch. I may have been looking at the parade somewhere with lunch going on at the same time. That's all very vague in my mind, although I remember the other parades very thoroughly, particularly the 1940 one where they showed the new military weapons. That was a very short parade, but it had the new weapons. We had never seen tanks before, or at least we had never