Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First Lady's room adjoins the President's on the east. On the other side is the dressing room where stood the Coolidge mechanical horse, and where the standardized blue serge Hoover suits, the standardized Hoover shoes, the tall stiff standardized Hoover collars, will be adjusted...
President John Adams first occupied it in November 1800. The Adamses found that "twelve roaring wood fires" would not warm it. In the barnlike East Room hung the Adams wash...
...East of this room is the President's private office, or study, for generations the old Cabinet room. Here on the flag-flanked "Resolute" desk, a long-ago gift from Queen Victoria, wait the morning papers. It is a cheery room, with bookcases marching up the walls. Here the President receives his favored visitors...
...east end of the hall are three abrupt steps up. Beside them, in the hall's southeastern corner, once sat "Bill" Price of the Washington Star, first of all Washington newsgatherers to make a serious enterprise, under McKinley, of "covering" the President. All newsmen have long since been banished from the inner White House. Until Roosevelt's time, the President's executive offices were up the three steps, filling all second-story space over the East Room. The East Room's extra height elevates the second floor here, thus lowering the sills of the upstairs windows...
Less important guests go to the east entrance, on East Executive Ave., and reach the White House through a long corridor-cloakroom...