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they came to see. To them it was my inauguration. They had seen me on the reviewing stand with the other Cabinet officers and that satisfied them. They were very sweet, happy, nice people. Some of them were the referees. There was the man who was the head of the workmen's Compensation Bureau. Some of the chief inspectors were there, as well as two or three of the examiners from the workmen's Compensation Bureau. There were a couple of the men who had been in the industrial hygiene division. They were the people who had seen a lot of me and who had enough money to pay their train fares down.

Just as this reception was breaking up along towards half-past-five or six, I was paged in the Willard Hotel and told that I had a telephone call. It was from Early, saying, “The president wants you to be at the White House at eight o'clock this evening.” It might have been seven o'clock. I don't recall that too well. “He wants you to swear in tonight.”

“Well,” I said, “Early, I'm going back to New York tonight.”

He said, “You can't do that.”

I said, “But I promised Governor Lehman that I would finish up certain projects in the New York State Department