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Franklin D. Roosevelt, the last president to be inaugurated on March 4 and the first to be inaugurated January 20, did not attend his inaugural ball as the Depression and war loomed on his agenda. His intellectually brilliant and impeccably groomed wife, Eleanor, would prove a capable hostess. Here her gown of quiet ladylike refinement belies the ardent activist and social reformer she would become.