The newspapermen assigned to the President were curious. At the last stop on his "nonpolitical" trip to Tennessee they had trailed him all morning on a tour of an armor-plate mill in South Charleston, W. Va. As they climbed into their car on the Presidential Special they were surprised by word that the President would hold a special press conference after they got under way. The train pulled out of Charleston, rocked along the bank of the torrential Kanawha.
At 11:30, the reporters got up, filed through the swaying train to the President's...
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