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Democratic National Committee, the Democratic State Committee. I mean, he was all right, he was well known. He just was one of those - I don't remember his name, but you can see the pictures of him in the Washington papers of that evening. And by a strange accident, next to him stood Miss Jay, a little but of a runt of a person, who had gotten in there. She is looking up at him in this disgusting way, in the picture. He's a huge creature - she's little - and she's just looking so disgusted at him.

Well, he was prepared to cheer all the time. I mean, they didn't know it was wartime, you know. He didn't know there was serious business afoot. He just was a member of the Committee. He's got a ticket to come and represent the State of Texas. He wanted to talk about Texas. Well, of course he had no chance to, because the ceremonies were very short. Somebody prayed, and the President made his Inaugural Address, and was sworn in, I don't remember at this moment who swore him in. One of the Justices of the Supreme Court, but I can't say which one it was. That's, of course, a matter of record.

But by that time - by the time the President came down to that Inauguration - he looked very badly. Now, I say that to show how rapidly he could change, from looking pretty well to looking very badly. The change would take place in two or three hours. And then from looking very





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