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...Christmas Eve the President and Mrs. Hoover were giving a party to the children of his Secretariat. Dessert was just being served when Secretary Lawrence Richey whispered something in the President's ear. Quickly the President arose, put an overcoat on over his dinner jacket, hurried out of doors to see flame-shot clouds of smoke billowing from his office building, 200 ft. from the White House proper...
Fire apparatus clanged into the White House grounds. Into the burning building dashed Secretaries Akerson and Richey and the President's son, Allan, to salvage the President's papers. President Hoover rubbed his hands, stroked his hair nervously, called to the firefighters: "Save my files!" He saw the drawers of his desk lugged out safely. It was very cold. Water froze on the hose lines, smeared the furnace-like structure with tentacles of ice. Without rubbers, the President's feet got wet and cold. At the height of the conflagration he remembered his little guests...
...President Hoover takes joy in slipping away from his newsgathering shadows. Last week he succeeded in motoring without them to Catoctin Furnace, Md., to fish peacefully in Hunting Creek with Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey. All that the newsgatherers learned was that the President caught a pound-and-a-half trout, inspected a site for a ten-room log cabin, ate a picnic supper under the trees with Mrs. Hoover. After dusk he drove back to Washington. His shadows politely rebuked...
...House where at 7 a. m. in a large black sweater and grey flannel trousers he plays it with his friends for half an hour. Bulls-in-the-ring have been : Justice Stone of the Supreme Court, Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, Newswriter Mark Sullivan, Presidential Physician Boone, Detective Secretary Richey. The playground is sheltered from public gaze by thick shrubbery. President Hoover works up a good perspiration, takes a shower, a massage, is ready for work...
Long one of the Treasury's best sleuths, favored by President Roosevelt as a bodyguard at Oyster Bay, Detective-Secretary Richey entered Herbert Hoover's service in Food Administration days. Bodyguarding long since ceased to be his sole function. He furnishes the Chief with a pair of extra ears as well as with vigilant eyes and brawn. When the President-Elect went to South America, Lawrence Richey was left behind to Hear Things...