Transcription: On a gray and cheerless Washington day, it was a Saturday. Roosevelt, coatless and hatless, looked out on the sea of anxious faces assembled before the Capitol Rotunda. In that rich, cultured voice America would come to know so well, he promised a new and better direction for the nation. This is Chief Justice, my friends. His words echoed out over the crowd assembled in front of him. of the Capitol and were heard by millions listening in on radio. When he finished, a columnist wrote, a collective sigh of relief was heard to go up throughout the entire land.
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