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From the diningroom walls, President and Mrs. Coolidge, in oils, gaze coolly down upon the throng. (Taft and Wilson are in the foyer; Roosevelt in the hall. All the Presidents except Harding hang somewhere in the White House...
Important reception guests draw up in front, under the White House porte cochère, and march directly in past the President's Seal embedded in the floor of the main foyer...
...reception line forms in the basement and crawls up a red-carpeted stairway to the main floor (see cut), where it turns left into the foyer. Vast mirrors double the crowd. Light sprays from a huge bronze lantern overhead and from countless bronze standards about the walls...
...west side of the foyer, in a grove of potted palms, the red-jacketed Marine Band blares martially. Young military aides ply softly up and down, keeping the line of guests moving decorously but swiftly into the State Dining Room, where the faint may refresh themselves with clear ice water from a mahogany sideboard...
...Irwin Hood Hoover, came to the White House as plain "Ike" Hoover, a tall, long-nosed electrician to superintend a wiring job. He stayed on and on until he became major domo, chief usher and master of White House protocol. He has a little office off the main foyer, to the right as you enter. Crisply grey of hair, vigorous of demeanor, it is he who inspects all callers, who engineers all receptions, arranges the First Lady's teas, sends the White House motor hither...