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    "ocrText": "- -5 -\nPRESIDENT: This came out of the White House. All the paneling on this floor\nis wood out of the old Whi.te House. It was saved. All. these ground floor\nrooms are paneled from the pine that came out of the old house.\nMR. CRONKITE: I like the touch of leaving the original nail holes in it, too.\nPRESIDENT: Yes, it adds that much. That picture of Mrs. Coolidge. I was\ncoming here to a reception one time and this picture formerly was out in the\ncorridor there and I came in with Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas. We stopped\nin front of Mrs. Coolidge's picture and Senator Sheppard said, \"Harry, that dog\ngot my breakfast one time when I was down here.\" I said, \"Well, how's that?\"\n\"Well, \" he said, \"President Coolidge used to have breakfast for Senators and\nCongressmen and we were sitting around the table and the dog came up and barked\nand Mr. Collidge said, 'Senator, he wants your sausage. I gave him my sausage\nand I didn't get another one.\"\nMR. CRONKITE: Mr. President, what about this piece of furniture out in the\nmiddle? It looks like it came from the Baltimore Hotel in Kansas City when\nthey tore the old building down.\nPRESIDENT: It came in 1860 and was formerly in the Blue Room, if I remember\ncorrectly.\nMR. CRONKITE: That was in President Lincoln's Administration.\nPRESIDENT: That's right.\nMR. CRONKITE: And this being in the China Room, could we take a look at some\nof the china down here?\nPRESIDENT: The china here is the confused china -- very confused. There are\nsamples here from nearly every Presidential purchase. This is Lincoln China here.\nMR. CRONKITE: I see that Mr. Lincoln had the eagle facing the right way on his\nchina.\nPRESIDENT: That's the way it ought to be on the Great Seal of the United States.\nMR. CRONKITE: It's beautiful, indeed.\nPRESIDENT: Dolliy Madison's china here. This is before the house was burned\nand this is after the house was burned.\nMR. CRONKITE: By the British in 1812.\nPRESIDENT: Yes, that's right.\nMR. CRONKITE: Blue before and green afterwards -- very nice with the lower\nwreath around it\nPRESTDENT: There is some lovely china over here on this side. This is Theodore\nRoosevelt's here.\nMR. CRONKITE: Gold with the seal small at the edge, and the eagle facing the\nwrong way. No. No, no, he's facing the right way.\nPRESIDENT: That's the same as he faces on the Great Seal of the United States.\nThe eagle Caces the right way on the Great Seal of the United States.\nMR. CRONKITE: Of course, II never knew that until you pointed it out a moment\nago -- now I'll be `watching heads of eagles most of the time and not necessarily\nthose on coins either.\nPreservation Copy"
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