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there he will be escored to Paradise, and in Paradise he will have time eternal to think, and so forth and so on. It's very beautiful. It was very rewarding to me to hear it used, because it was so much want I wanted. I felt that that needed to be said about this fellow that had been out off so suddenly in the midst of everything.

But there was no reference whatever to the fact that he was President of the United States. Not a phrase. Not a word that would indicate that this was anything but a poor sinner, a lamb of thine own redeeming, who was now being received by the church and laid away, his soul to be born by the angels and the saints into the presence of the Almighty. Not a word that he was President. Not a word that he'd been a great politician. Not a word that he had served his country.

Oh, that was good. It was very good. It was a human being. The poignancy of the occasion was well served by just that. Father Anthony was innocent of any political aspirations at all. I mean, he was an old man and here was a son of his parish come home to be buried, and it was his duty to bury him and that was that. There was no other thing at all.

I think that the band played as we went in. I think they played some hymn. I don't remember what it was, but I have a vague memory of it. But I do remember--and this is a thing





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