Never before had a departing member of a President's cabinet been ushered out with such fanfare. In the White House Conference Room, President Eisenhower and Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, 50, the first U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, sat before the television cameras. Mrs. Hobby, dressed in a brown and white silk redingote, blinked back tears as the President recalled their first meeting in London in 1942, when Oveta was commander of the WAAC (later the WAC). Said the President: "Well, Oveta, this is a sad day for the Administration ......
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