This is the month when the U.S. motorist arranges his children in the back seat, puts a comic book in the hands of each, and joins the opening charge of the yearly 5,5000,000-tourist attack on Washington D.C. This season the visitors get to see a substantial changethe first in a centuryin a major public shrine: the new east front of the Capitol, topped by the freshly sandblasted 200-ft. dome.
The central east front of the building between the house and Senate wings remained the same for every inaugural (except Taft's indoor ceremony) from...
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