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I had awfully on my mind the duty and obligation to be pleasant and see a lot of these people who had come down on my account, as well as these thirty people from the Department of Labor. Miss Jay was along with the Departments of Labor people and I had her arrange to get one of the little parlors at the Willard Hotel for Sunday afternoon. I asked her to ask all these people who had come from the Department of Labor, and anybody else whom I knew who had come down, to come to the little tea and reception on Sunday afternoon, feeling what that would be the only time I would see them and they would probably all have to go back to New York that night.

I also knew that we had been invited to lunch on Inauguration Day. It escapes my mind where that was. We had been invited also to a reception which the newly installed President, and Mrs. Roosevelt, would be given on the afternoon of Inauguration Day at four o'clock. I got an invitation with regular entrance tickets. They said the east entrance. I didn't know where the east entrance was, but I felt that those things you could safely leave to the Washington taxicab drivers. I felt they would know where everything was. I didn't know them then as well as I know now. I thought they would certainly know their way around.

I had an awful sense of not knowing what I was about.