WHITE HOUSE GOSSIP _From Andrew Johnson to Calvin Coolidge_ BY EDNA M. COLMAN AUTHOR OF “SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF WHITE HOUSE GOSSIP” [Illustration] 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