The same year Texas elected Democrat Price Daniel to the U.S. Senate. Hutchinson's husband, Everett, had managed the campaign for Daniel, who would later be elected the state's governor.

So Hutchinson was at the inauguration in January 1953, when Eisenhower took the oath of office then told Americans, "We must be ready to dare all for our country, for history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." It was the most memorable of them all, she said.

Two years later, in 1955, the Hutchinsons moved to Washington after Eisenhower appointed her husband to the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Everett Hutchinson later worked in Washington as a transportation lawyer. In 1967, after Congress established the Department of Transportation, President Johnson appointed him to its number-two position.

Hutchinson remembers all 13 inaugurals since that first one - Including the weather.

“I remember sitting out there in that cold weather,” she said. “During Reagan’s I think it was snowing.”

That was 1985, the year a snowstorm forced Reagan to give his second inaugural address inside the Capitol.