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badly and looking as if he were a ghost, in a couple of hours lateryyou'd see he'd be all right. I mean, he'd look fine again - his eyes bright. The change in appearance had to do with the oncoming of a kind of glassy eye, and an extremely drawn look around the jaw and cheeks, and even a sort of dropping of the muscles of control of the jaw and mouth, as tough they weren't working exactly. I think they were, but there was a great weakness in those muscles. Also, if you saw him close to, you would see that his hands were weak.

When he fainted, as he did occasionally - not for many years, but for several years - that was all accentuated. It would be momentary. It would be very brief, and he'd be back again.

So he looked very badly. And he came right down from the platform, from the little dais that had been raised for him to speak from - no, I don't think there was any dais that time. He stook on the level. He's a tall man, you see, and there was the railing of the porch. He read his Inaugural Address from a small lecturn that had been put up there. And when he came down, he leaned very heavily upon whoever was helping him, whether it was Jim or Pa Watson or what, I don't recall, but he leaned very heavily upon him. And they had brought the wheel-chair right up. He didn't make any bones about getting right into it. I mean,





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