Chapter I: Front Matter

WHITE HOUSE GOSSIP

_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