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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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roof of the portico; and it was furnished, more-over, in dark red, a colour which does not add light to gloom-iness, but the boys got it because they were the members ofthe family who would care the least and who would be themost away. The great staircase descends from the central hall justbeyond these rooms and facing the staircase is the PresidentsStudy. The eastern end of the building was all used asoffices until the new offices were built and the house restoredin accordance with the original plan. The Presidents withlarge families must, indeed, have been in an uncomfortablesituation when they had to confine themselves to the roomsin the west end, the only rooms then available for livingpurposes. The facts are that such families found the houseto be less commodious than a five-room flat, as the wife ofone President expressed it. I believe the Roosevelts, untilthe house was remodelled, were unable to accommodate oneguest. There is a story that when Prince Henry of Prussia was in 338
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^^^^^^^^ ^^SP^^^^^^rf^ftBfc^^fc^:— ^^^^^^a^B 1 ■ w9l^~- ^^m b I I . (g) Harris & K« in- TWO WHITE HOUSE BEDROOMS SHOWING FIXE OLD COLONIAL BEDS RECOLLECTIONS OF FULL YEARS Washington, President Roosevelt invited him to ride. ThePrince accepted and just before the appointed hour appearedat the White House in his street clothes, accompanied by avalet bearing his riding clothes. He had very naturallyexpected to change at the White House, but it happenedthat on that day there was not one room that could even beprepared for a Royal dressing-room, so the President wascompelled to request His Highness to return to the GermanEmbassy to change. I believe this incident had the effectof hastening the deliberations of the members of the Ap-propriations Committee of the House who were then lei-surely figuring on the amount necessary for the restora-tion. Senator McMillan, who was at the head of the Dis-trict Committee in the Senate, and who, in his lifetimewas the leading spirit in the im

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