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    "ocrText": "LIFE\nVol. 26, No. 5\nJanuary 31, 1949\nIN THE INAUGURAL PARADE AFTER TAKING THEIR OATHS THE PRESIDENT AND ALBEN BARKLEY ARE ALL DRESSED UP AND GRINNING HAPPILY FOR THE CROWDS\nTRUMAN IS INAUGURATED\nThe honor of your presence\nPennsylvania Avenue looked like a ball park be-\nbig nor so rowdy as had been anticipated; any\nceremonies\nfore a World Series game or like the entrance to a\nenterprising visitor could still find a hotel room\nstate fair. The bleachers had been hammered into\nattending Inauquetion of the\non the very day of the ceremonies and a group of\nplace. Hawkers sold hot dogs, coffee, spun sugar,\nwomen volunteers, who had lined up 22,000 beds\nPresident\nUnited.\nsouvenir buttons and Kewpie dolls with bright\nin private homes, was mightily embarrassed by\npurple feathers. Hordes of watchful policemen,\nlack of applicants. Yet it was a big and often stir-\nJanuary\nleenlieth\nsoldiers and Secret Service men lined the parade\nring show. There was a three-hour-long parade\nroute. (Once a Secret Service man picked a sus-\n(pp. 20, 21), fireworks and a full-dress ball which\nlindeen\npicious-looking box from the curbing and a Boy\nwent on until 3 o'clock in the morning (p. 24).\nScout yelled, \"Hey, that's my lunch!\") Airplanes\nAnd when the President took his oath of office he\nroared overhead, so low that they flushed flocks of\nstepped up to deliver /one of the frankest state-\nHoward\nfrightened starlings from the Treasury building.\nments of U.S. foreign policy ever made in peace-\nIn this atmosphere-as peculiarly American\ntime (pp. 18, 19). A million or more people milled\nas the political campaign which elected them-\nthrough the street in the bright winter sunlight,\nHarry Truman and Alben Barkley were inau-\nsaw part or all of the ceremonies, glimpsed their\nINVITATIONS\ngurated last week. The inauguration was not so\n32nd President and went home glad that they had."
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