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President Monroe imported $60,000 worth of "heavy substantial furniture" from France. President John Quincy Adams caused a public uproar by installing a billiard table. The North Portico was finished by President Jackson, whose inaugural party for the Plain People nearly wrecked the interior...
...wall of the north portion of the White House is a bell. On a recent afternoon. President Coolidge pressed this bell repeatedly, scampered quickly away. To the north portico rushed a detail of Secret Service men, to whom the bell's ringing was a summons to come at once. From a distance, the President watched their confusion, heard them ask the Secret Service man on patrol duty why he had rung the bell, heard the patrolman's denial of any bell-ringing. After the guards had dispersed, the President stole back, again pressed the button, again trotted away...
...Street N. W. A mild little colonial structure of red brick, with a peaceable white door and portico, stands on I Street northwest, in Washington. It is the Meeting House of the Society of Friends in the capital, and there Mr. & Mrs. Hoover attend service. Its capacity is about 200 people, and the Friends were wondering how best to stretch the walls. With or without circulars to the scientifically minded, they foresaw that crowds would throng to their door each "First Day" of the next four years, when President & First Lady attend...
Last week another President, Calvin Coolidge, clad in black academy robes and mortarboard cap with gold tassel, stood before a microphone on the Georgian portico of Samuel Phillips Hall to help celebrate the sesquicentennial of Phillips Academy. Mrs. Coolidge was sitting behind him, moved not so much by what he was saying as by a hymn she had just heard. It was her favorite Jesus I Love Thee and also the hymn of Mercersburg Academy, where her son Calvin Jr. schooled before his death in 1924. It was sung by nearly a thousand Andover students, and Mrs. Coolidge added...
...usurper of those jewels, Lord Elgin, was not content with many masterpieces alone, but tore away and transported to England one of the six caryatids and one of the six columns of the eastern portico of the Erechtheum." The writer bitterly asks the British Government to restore these two pieces, adding that he knows it would be useless to claim the heart of the collection...