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Inauguration Day
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Inauguration Day
Inauquration Day
Vanity Fair March 1933
A vert your eyes, Mr. President. This is not the inaugural tableau you want to see. That dour chub in the high starched collar is Herbert C. Hoover, who, following more than a decade of Republican rule, was given the brush by voters. It may have had something to do with the Great Depression—the longest economic downturn in U.S. history. The second-longest is still in full bloom.
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