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PRESIDENT HAS HIS LITTLE JOKE. WASHINGTON, D.C. JANUARY 14. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IS A GREAT RIBBER AND HARDLY A DAY PASSES THAT HE DOES NOT INJECT A LITTLE HUMOR INTO HIS SERIOUS JOB OF BEING THE NATION'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE. TODAY'S JOKE WAS AT THE EXPENSE OF ADMIRAL CARY T. GRAYSON, CHAIRMAN OF THE INAUGURAL COMMITTEE. FINDING AN ENGRAVED INVITATION TO ATTEND THE INAUGURAL CEREMONIES ON HIS DESK THIS MORNING, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WROTE THE FOLLOWING MEMORANDUM TO W.E. ROCKW... CHIEF OF THE WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL BUREAU: 'PLEASE REGRET THIS INVITATION. I WILL BE TOO BUSY' WHEN THE LETTER OF REGRET WAS SENT TO HIS DESK FOR FINAL O.K., PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, PONDERED A MOMENT AND ADDED THE FOLLOWING NOTATION ON THE LETTER SHOWN IN THE PHOTOGRAPH. THE LETTER WAS THEN DISPATCHED TO ADMIRAL GRAYSON
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A black and white photo of a letter on a piece of paper, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve.
Date based on date of negatives in same range.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch eight.
The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection of negatives to the Library in 1955. The Library retained about 50,000 news photographs and 20,000 studio portraits of notable people. Approximately 28,000 negatives have been processed and are available online. (About 42,000 negatives still need to be indexed.)
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