WHITE HOUSE GOSSIP
Reading edition
From Andrew Johnson to Calvin Coolidge
BY
EDNA M. COLMAN
AUTHOR OF “SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF WHITE HOUSE GOSSIP”
ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM
PHOTOGRAPHS
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1927
COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y. FIRST EDITION
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. Administration of Andrew Johnson 1
II. First Administration of Ulysses S. Grant 50
III. Second Administration of Ulysses S. Grant 77
IV. The Administration of Rutherford B. Hayes 104
V. Administration of James Abram Garfield 128
VI. Administration of Chester Alan Arthur 146
VII. First Administration of Grover Cleveland 170
VIII. Administration of Benjamin Harrison 198
IX. Second Administration of Grover Cleveland 221
X. First Administration of William McKinley 243
XI. Second Administration of William McKinley 265
XII. First Administration of Theodore Roosevelt 277
XIII. Second Administration of Theodore Roosevelt 292
XIV. Administration of William Howard Taft 319
XV. First Administration of Woodrow Wilson 340
XVI. Second Administration of Woodrow Wilson 364
XVII. The Administration of Warren G. Harding 378
XVIII. First Administration of Calvin Coolidge 401
Index 421
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
Andrew Johnson’s first tailor shop 40
The Grand Review of the Armies of the North 40
Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant 56
Nellie Grant Sartoris 88
Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes 104
Rutherford Birchard Hayes 104
Mrs. James A. Garfield 136
Mrs. John McElroy, sister of President Arthur 152
Mrs. Grover Cleveland in her wedding gown 184
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison 200
The Inauguration of Grover Cleveland 232
Mrs. Ida Saxton McKinley 248
William McKinley 248
Theodore Roosevelt and his family 280
Alice Longworth in her wedding gown 296
William H. Taft and his family 328
Woodrow Wilson and his family in 1912 344
Democracy and Royalty 376
The body of Warren G. Harding lying in state 392
WHITE HOUSE GOSSIP
From Andrew Johnson to Calvin Coolidge
WHITE HOUSE GOSSIP FROM ANDREW JOHNSON TO CALVIN COOLIDGE