Note 1017 — Chapter XXXVI · CLEVELAND’S ENORMOUS MAJORITY 1881-2
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"I dined at the President's on Wednesday. The dinner was extremely elegant, hardly a trace of the old White House taint being perceptible anywhere, the flowers, the silver, the attendants, all showing the latest style and an abandon in expense and taste."—Mrs. James G. Blaine, Letters (March 13, 1882), Vol. 2, pp. 4, 5.