The honor of your presence is requested at the ceremonies attending the Inauguration of the President of the United States, January 20, 1937. Please present the enclosed card of admission.
When this handsomely engraved official invitation from the Inaugural Committee's Chairman Gary T. Grayson turned up on his desk one day last week, President Roosevelt let out a roar of delight, seized a pen, scrawled across the bottom a note to Chief W. E. Rockwell of the White House Social Bureau: "Please regret this invitation. I will be too busy."
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