Word: hooverness
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Whizzing up Pennsylvania Avenue, the Hoover-Roosevelt car missed its cavalry escort, had to pause before the Post Office building to let the horsemen catch up. On the mile-&-a-quarter drive Mr. Roosevelt kept up a running fire of conversation with Mr. Hoover. The President, his face drawn and lowered, replied in monosyllables. Street crowds along the way pattered out mild applause which the incoming President left to the outgoing President to acknowledge as his final tribute...
Uphill. Before the White House portico Mr. Roosevelt kept his seat in the car, waited a few minutes for President Hoover to join him for the ride up Capitol Hill. A lift of silk hats, a quick handshake, a few formal words and their greeting was over. With the country's most precious cargo behind, Richard Jervis, silvery-haired chief of the White House Secret Service, slipped into the front seat of the car, kept its door cracked and one hand on his pocketed pistol...
...swung around to the long-unused north entrance to the Capitol Mr. Roosevelt noticed that the flags on the building were half-staffed. That was for the death of Montana's Senator Thomas James Walsh, his Attorney General-designate. Once inside the Capitol, they separated. Mr. Hoover going to the President's room to sign bills, Mr. Roosevelt to the Military Affairs Committee Room down the same hall to kill time. Louisiana's Long, spying the new President, started to sweep in upon him blatantly, changed his mind at the threshold, tiptoed away. Mr. Roosevelt was restless...
...Good Show/' At dusk the files were still tramping by when the President broke off and returned to the White House to find a tea for thousands in progress on the main floor. Even some Republicans attended-Hoover Secretaries Hurley and Doak, "to pay respects," they explained. Avoiding the throng, President Roosevelt went up to the second-floor study where his whole Cabinet, confirmed a few hours before by the Senate, was assembled to be sworn in. Supreme Court Justice Cardozo, a New Yorker, administered oaths while the President sat at a desk and listened to the chorus...
...Herbert Hoover stuck a long black cigar between his teeth, nipped out the tails of his cutaway and sat firmly down at the black oval table in the centre of the President's room just off the Senate lobby. He was still President of the U..S. with work to do. An enormous wall mirror reflected the drawn tired lines in his face as he hunched over a stack of bills laid before him. William McKinley (in bronze) glowered out of a corner. Down through the heavy tracery of a chandelier "The Eye of God'' painted...