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afternoon reception or not. I'm pretty sure that they didn't. I'm practically positive that the social code is that they do not appear at any public reception, or large reception, of the President's until after they have been formally presented to the new President. Although they were present on the stand and saw him take the oath of office, they had not been diplomatically and personally presented. So, of course, they would not be at the reception, or at anything else, although many of them were at the inaugural ball that evening, which I'm pretty sure the President did not attend.

There were a lot of New York State Democrats - upstate Democrats, city Democrats, Tammany Hall people, and people like that. I had a very pleasant time, although I had a rough time and was pushed around a great deal, The room was so crowded, and yet it was to me a satisfactory time. I owed everything to the state of New York and I loved it. I owed every one of these political people, if not my appointments, gratitude for their support of me in office, for their loyalty, for their willingness to stand by me in crises in New York State, for their cooperation when they were members of the Legislature, and for the fact that they had rather willingly really voted on bills that I had recommended and that came through their houses. They had always given me courteous treatment in committees before