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Sickles was now in his 80s. To William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, says author Pinchon, he was a valued counselor; to veterans an adored hero. ("It is my guess," observed Sickles' friend Mark Twain, "that if the General had to lose a leg, he'd rather lose the one he has than the one he hasn't.") And, incredibly enough, he was still the terror of matrons with unmarried daughters. The great bureau in his bedroom was stuffed with silk stockings, lingerie and perfume; to a lady who said she would prefer to be rewarded with...
...member one singles match, Half Hunter halted Larry Stewart of the visitors, 6-4, 6-0. Murray Levin, in the second stlot, vanquished Pete McKinley, 6-1, 6-2, while Fred Bolton best Bob Bartlett of Worcester in three sets...
Teaming up in the doubles, Levin and Hunter won a clean victory over Stewart and McKinley, 6-1, 6-2, though the home team's second doubles combination of Al Alpern and Frothingham encountered, more difficulty, finally coming...
Franklin Roosevelt established the Presidential press conference as an institution. No other U.S. President had ever been so regularly accessible to newsmen. McKinley on occasion had stepped to the White House door, chatted briefly and uninformatively with reporters. Theodore Roosevelt had used favorite correspondents for "trial balloon" stories and consigned them to "the Ananias Club" if the stories proved embarrassing. Wilson had shut off press conferences after war drew near. Harding, after an ill-fated attempt to be frank, would answer only questions submitted in writing. Coolidge dodged behind the anonymity of the "White House Spokesman" and Hoover ruled that...
President Roosevelt was the seventh president to die in office. Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield and William McKinley were assassinated, while William Harrison, Warren Harding and Zachary Taylor died of natural causes...