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    "ocrText": "- 8 -\nMR. CRONKITE: Well, thank you very much, Mr. President, for this ground floor\ntour. You have a lot more rooms upstairs of great historic value that I know\nthe people of the United States are going to be very interested in having you\nshow them around.\nPRESIDENT: I'll do my best.\nMR. CRONKITE: Here is Bryson Rash waiting up at the head of the stairs for us\nto take you through some more of the rooms -- or for you to take him through.\nMR. RASH: Yes, thank you Wally. I'll take over. We'd like to orient ourselves\nright here. We came up from the basement up to the stairs and are back now --\nwe came up the main foyer.\nPRESIDENT: That's right, -we came up the stairway which the reception people use\nwhen they come here to State Receptions.\nMR. RASH: And we're back -- right at the moment where we started this tour.\nPRESIDENT: That's right, in the main hallway.\nMR. RASH: Incidentally, it was right over here on the floor that that seal was\nembedded that was later\nPRESIDENT: That's right, the seal was here in the center. It's now over the\ndoorway of the Diplomatic Reception Room.\nMR. RASH: It was right here.\nPRESIDENT: Right here.\nMR. RASH: You didn't like the idea of its being walked upon.\nPRESIDENT: I didn't want people to walk on it.\nMR. RASH: Of course not.\nPRESIDENT: The new seal is up over the Blue Room.\nMR. RASH: We'll get that in just a minute. Let's walk down to the State Dining\nRoom, Mr. President. Now we are in sort of a secondary corridor that's directly\nin front of the lobby and walking down toward the State Dining Room which is at\nthe west side.\nPRESIDENT: This is the main hallway of the House. The State Dining Room is off\nit, the Blue Room -- the East Room -- is at the other end and the parlors off of it.\nMR. RASH: The famous East Room -- at the other end.\nPRESIDENT: This is the Main Dining Room and in the old days the stairway for\nthe second floor came down on the north side of this room. There was a wall\nhere even with that doorway and that's all that room had and they used it for\na cabinet room, at that time. The present Green Room was used for a Dining\nRoom. Now this is the State Dining Room and we can seat 102 people here for a\nState Luncheon.\nMR. RASH: And when you do have a State Dinner here, it's made in the form of a\nhorseshoe.\nPreservation Copy"
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