January 19th, 1973

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The inaugural concert was presented tonight at the Kennedy Center. Major affair. Nixon chose as the inaugural symphony Tschaichevsky’s 1810 Overture– replete with cannons on stage. A real minister of peace. How bizarre– what a madman– a criminal monster ruling a criminal fascist– violent hand lost in its madness of hate and decadence.  

Leonard Bernstein– in form of protest– presented at the Washington Cathedral Haydn’s Mass in Time of War– as a plea for peace. 

I thought this was all to happen tomorrow night– so I called Gayle and we got very excited on planning to go– tomorrow night– we imagined we’d see all sorts of personalities– Jane Fonda perhaps– when I got off the phone Marvin told me that they had announced the correction in dates–

So what to do tomorrow–

I could go downtown and buy some shoes

I could go to Value Village

I could go to Georgetown to buy posters or something for the apartment.