With the President and Mrs. Roosevelt in the reception room were the Vice-President and Mrs. John Garner, all members of the Cabinet and wives of the Cabinet members, Sena-for Key Pittman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Sam D. McReynolds, chairman of the House" Foreign Affairs Committee, General Maun Craig, Army Chief of Staff, Mrs, Craig, Admiral William Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, Mrs, Leahy, the Under-Secretary of State, Mr. Sumner Welles, and Mrs, Welles.
One of the greatest parades in American history followed the reception at the station, Their Majesties were driven along historic Constitution Avenue preceded by 6,000 soldiers, bluejackets and Marines.
Fifteen hundred policemen and firemen held in creek the 750,000 Americans estimated to have turned out to give an unprecedented welcome to the popular British King and
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