![]() ![]() Taft and the family would come down to the private dining room for breakfast. West, Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973)Ī little before eight-thirty the President and Mrs. Eisenhower said to the butler), Easter bunnies hatching from pale blue shells on the mantel, ropes of cherry blossoms climbing the marble columns, and masses of fresh spring flowers throughout the White House.Ĭhief Usher J. At Eastertime there were butterflies hanging from the chandeliers, artificial birds singing with tape-recorded voices ("Would you please shut off the birds?" Mrs. Patrick's Day, she twined the columns with green ribbons and top hats, with shamrocks hanging from the chandeliers, leprechauns in the State Dining Room and green carnations and bells-of-Ireland in the flower bowls. ![]() The White House never celebrated the change of seasons so heartily as it did under Mrs. Hoover, 42 Years in the White House (1934) Likewise we frequently saw one of the children stretched out on the floor flat on his stomach eating a piece of candy with his face buried in book.Ĭhief Usher Irwin H. The President in particular would devour a book, and it was no uncommon thing for him to go entirely through three or four volumes in the course of an evening. Never a moment was allowed to go to waste from the oldest to the youngest they always had a book or magazine before them. The whole family were fiends when it came to reading. ![]()
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