Identifier: recollectionsoff00taft (find matches)
Title: Recollections of full years
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Taft, Helen Herron, 1861-1943
Subjects: White House (Washington, D.C.) Philippines -- Description and travel Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e too long. Charliewas only eleven years old and I consider it a great tributeto his fathers eloquence that Treasure Island was notopened that day. This Inauguration was said to be, by persons who hadseen many, one of the most impressive ceremonies that everopened the administration of a President. The oath ofoffice is usually administered and the Inaugural address de-livered from a large platform erected in front of the Capi-tol before which ten thousand people can assemble. Butthe ten thousand people are sure to have been waiting ina massed crowd for an hour or more; they are always tiredand uncomfortable, so when they finally discover that fewof them can really hear anything, and that they have seenall there is to be seen, they begin to move about and talk,the noise and agitation greatly detracting from the impres-siveness of the ceremony. Because my husbands Inaugura-tion took place in the Senate Chamber it was no less inthe sight of all the people. There was room on the floor 330
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/ / s - / V s / RECOLLECTIONS OF FULL YEARS of the Chamber for the whole official personnel of the Gov-ernment of the United States, resident in Washington.There were the retiring President and his Cabinet, the Jus-tices of the Supreme Court in their robes of office, the Sen-ate and the House of Representatives, besides the foreignAmbassadors and the whole Diplomatic Corps in their bril-liant uniforms, while the galleries were crowded with offi-cial families and a substantial number of unofficial audi-tors. It was a great presence; and the taking of the oath andthe delivering of the Inaugural address before assemblednational authority and the worlds representatives, in a sol-emn silence in which every word could be heard, left a deepimpression. As soon as Mr. Taft had finished speaking Mr. Roose-velt walked rapidly up, and giving his hand a mighty grasp,said something which sounded like Bully speech, oldman! and hurried out of the Chamber accompanied bymembers of his Cabinet who were

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