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Identifier: recollectionsoff00taft (find matches)
Title: Recollections of full years
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Taft, Helen Herron, 1861-1943
Subjects: White House (Washington, D.C.) Philippines -- Description and travel Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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body unfamiliar with Washington life imaginesthat a New Years Reception means throwing open theWhite House doors and admitting the public without con-sideration of rank or the rules of precedence he is mistaken.The Reception, up to a stated hour, is as carefully regulatedas any other function, and I consider the list of the especiallyfavoured most interesting as a revelation of the complexityof Washingtons social life. Announcement is made that the President will receive at11 :oo a.m.—the Vice-President, the members of the Cabinetand the Diplomatic Corps; at 11:20 a.m.—the SupremeCourt, members of the Judiciary of the District of Columbia,former Cabinet officers and former diplomatic representa-tives of the United States; at 11130—Senators, Representa-tives and Delegates in Congress; at 11145—Officers of theArmy, the Navy, the Marine Corps and the Militia of theDistrict of Columbia; at 12:15 p.m.—Regents and Secre-tary of the Smithsonian Institution, all the various Com- 372
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f s RECOLLECTIONS OF FULL YEARS missions, Assistant Secretaries of Departments, the SolicitorGeneral, Assistant Attorneys-General, Assistant Postmasters-General, the Treasurer of the United States, the Librarianof Congress, the Public Printer, heads of all Bureaus andthe President of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf andDumb; at 12:30 p.m.—The Secretary of the Cincinnati,the x\ztec Club of 1847, the Associated Veterans of the Warof 1846-47, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of theUnited States, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Medalof Honor Legion, the Union Veteran Legion, the UnionVeterans Union, the Society of the Army of Santiago, theSpanish Minute Men, the Sons of the American Revolutionand the members of the Oldest Inhabitants Association ofthe District of Columbia; at 1 :oo p.m.—Citizens. As all the men present themselves in the dress uniform oftheir various services or orders, or wearing the decorationsthey have won in epoch-marking events, one gets a mostillum

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