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So when I saw him again, when he came down at 12:00 o'clock for the Inauguration on the back porch, on the South Porch of the White House, and a few tickets had been issued, you remember, for people to come in and stand on the grounds, and I suppose they'd been carefully issued. Of course, I was in the House, and in the room back of the south Porch. There were chairs on the South Porch and people were sitting there, you know - Mrs. Price Collier was there, that dear old lady, you know, in his family, and others. Elliott brought his new wife, Faye Emerson. I hadn't seen her before, but I knew who she was and I knew how saddened Mrs. Roosevelt had been by Elliott's marriage, because he'd promised her he wouldn't marry again, you know. So that he really had given some thought to the problems of life and faced up with something and found himself work to do - a place to be. Then within a week from the time he'd given her this promise in the White House, he'd telephoned back one night saying he'd just married Faye Emerson.

Anyhow, she was a very strange looking girl at that time. She was very heavily blondined and had her eyebrows all plucked, and looked very, very actressy, and didn't look just O.K. I say this because a couple of months later I saw her and she locked all right. I mean, she'd let her hair grow out, and had let it come to its natural brown





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