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At any rate, then the President pushed the button, and they brought in Justice Stone and Mr. Martin and Mr. Rayburn. Now, who these other people are, I'll be hanged if I can make out. I have an idea they're from either the House or the Senate, but they don't look like any I know. They look like younger men. No, they aren't photographers, because they're standing up there taking the picture. The only other person that I don't know is this follow over here. I can't see him, but I think he was one of the men who worked around the White House, and I think the other one was too. You see, they came in when Justice Stone came in.

Now, there were a number of other people who came in at that same time and who were in the room at the swearing-in. They don't show in this picture, but they were down at the other end of the room, and there are other pictures which show them. I remember Is adore Lubin was there, for instance. He worked for the President, you remember, and there were quite a lot of other people of that sort. They were standing at the other end of the room when the President was sworn in.

Well, that was that. That was all there was to it. The talk afterwards, of course, was very distracted. Everybody wanted to know more. I remember that Lubin was awfully upset. He's a very emotional person, and he couldn't control his tears, you see. He came rushing up to





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