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Washington, D. C., As Viewed
By Your Senator,
A. Willis Robertson
INAUGURATION IS A SYMBOL OF THE NATION’S GROWTH
We probably had in Washington this week more visitors for the Inauguration than we have had since the Inauguration of Woodrow Wilson in 1912, when the Democrats felt it was their turn to do some celebrating.
No Republican member of the Senate has previously served under a Republican President. And that applies likewise to most of the House members. So, I can fully sympathize with their desire to make the Inauguration of General Eisenhower a grand and glorious event.
All this was in sharp contrast with early inaugurations. When George Washington was inaugurated his Secretary of State, Alexander Hamilton, handsome and well dressed as well as possessing a brilliant intellect, wanted the occasion to be a brilliant affair. But Washington, desiring to encourage our infant textile industry, took the oath of office in a brown suit made in a small domestic mill. Nobody attempted to make Thomas Jefferson’s Inaugural a brilliant affair because they knew it was useless. He rode his favorite saddlehorse from the White House to the Capitol, practicing extreme simplicity and demanding it of all connected with the event.
The scene at Washington this week reflected the <iif ference between thirteen small States in the days of Washington, which had but recently won their freedom from a great world power, and forty-eight States in 1953 which have become, from the standpoint of wealth and capacity to produce, the greatest power in the world. There was probably more money represented in Washington on Inauguration Day than this or any other Capital of the world has ever known.
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