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    "ocrText": "- 6 -\nPRESIDENT: This is the Woodrow Wilson China, isn't that lovely.\nMR. CRONKITE: That is beautiful.\nPRESIDENT: I think that's one of the most beautiful sets I've ever seen in\nmy life.\nMR. CRONKTTE: Does the fact that there is a special. piece with the blue in it\nand so forth -- was that the President's own plate?\nPRESUDENT: Service plate -- No, that's the service plate. You can see a service\nplate in nearly every one of them except they are developed differently. Now\nthis is the Frank.lin Roosevelt China here -- you see it's b.lue with the Great\nSeal of the United States on it. And this is our contribution over here.\nMR. CRONKITE: Would you describe that for the folks.\nPRESIDENT: It's green and gold border and has the Presidentia] Seal on the\nService Plates. On the other plates it has the Great Seal of the Uni.ted States\njust like all the rest of the china.\nMR. CRONKTTE: What about that bottle there, that's so handsomely displayed?\nPRESIDENT: I'm not familiar with the history of that bottle, I'm sorry to say.\nI can't answer that.\nMR. CRONKITE: It's probably just as well. Not let's reorient our folks for a\nmoment. We're back here in the main corridor on the ground floor crossing the\nhall again to the same side that the Broadcasting Room is on, but on the other\nside of the stairway and this is the library.\nPRESIDENT: Library. This library is lovely. You see all the panels and book-\ncases are made out of the wood that came out of the old house. And then we\nhave on the floor here the rug that formerly was in the Red Room.\nMR. CRONKITE: Is that the Presidential Seal now?\nPRESIDEMI: No, that's the Great Seal of the United States. No, that's the o.ld\nPresidential Seal. -- see, the eagle is looking the wrong way.\nMR. CRONKITE: Why did you say to move this rug down here, Mr. President? Any\nparticular reason?\nPRESIDENT: Well, no, it just happens to be the best place to take care of it.\nYou see, when people go through the house, they let them look into the doors\nbut they don't come in and walk over the carpets.\nMR. CRONKITE: The library itself -- I understand that this was all given by\nthe Booksellers Association of America back in 1929 when they learned with\nconsiderable horror that there wasn't a library in the White House.\nPRESIDENT: That's correct, and every year they add to it.\nMR. CRONKITE: Do you have an actual part in the selection of those?\nPRESIDENT: No, no, no - they send them in here and we put them in this room and\nafter they have been here a long time and the place gets full, we send them out\nto the Library of Congress.\nProservation Copy"
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