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...Room have always been halls for mingling, feeding and entertaining hundreds of people. Ulysses S. Grant, summoned to Washington to command Union armies, arrived when Abraham Lincoln was in the midst of an evening reception. Grant stood on a sofa in the East Room so that the worshipful guests could see him and he could speak to them. Mikhail Gorbachev, the last communist leader of the Soviet Union, ate in the State Dining Room with George Bush, surrounded by the leading capitalists of the U.S. The Air Force Strolling Strings serenaded the jovial guest with Moscow Nights...
...contractors and staff members who brought the war news, much of it discouraging. So that Lincoln might speak to the crowds that gathered beneath the North Portico, candles were put in a narrow passageway that led from the private quarters to a window overlooking the drive. From there he could talk to the people below in relative safety, and often he did, his face outlined in flickering light. The corridor remains a tiny shrine in the modern White House...
...quarter-century after Lincoln's death, the innocent but mindless inside maneuverings of Caroline Harrison, wife of Benjamin, would jeopardize the White House with an element war could not: grandeur. She loved the White House but wanted more space. She rallied Cabinet officers and engineers to produce a plan for massive buildings attached to the existing White House and an enclosed quadrangle in the French Neoclassical mode. She had public and official support but not that of House Speaker Thomas B. Reed. Miffed by a postal appointment, he refused to let the authorization bill come to the floor. All that...
...factor in the success of U.S. democracy. Richard Nixon used to relate how visiting heads of state, many of them still doing business in ancient fortresses lined with cannons and battle lances, liked its warmth and informality. George Bush noted that even amid crises, he could glance out his office windows and see his grandchildren playing with his dogs or the gardeners digging in the flower beds. "It reminded me of what being President was all about," said Bush...
...crisis in our very third presidential election 200 years ago. As originally formulated, the electors were not to vote separately for President and Vice President. The presidency went to the electoral-vote winner, the vice presidency to the runner-up. It was thus conceivable that a vice-presidential nominee could be elected President...