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...President and Mrs. Coolidge attended the finish of a 10-mile marathon race in the Capital and saw one J. Movis, of the Nativity Catholic Club of Philadelphia, break the tape, a winner. ¶ Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, accompanied by C. Bascom Slemp, Miss Virginia Burke (a descendant of the Washington and the Jefferson families) and Congressman Moore of Virginia, went from Washington to the nearby city of Alexandria on the Sunday following Washington's birthday. They attended services in Christ Church, of which President Washington was a vestryman, and sat in the Washington...
...Bascom Slemp, Secretary to the President, was called before the investigating committee and asked what relations he had with Edward B. Mc-Lean, ex-Secretary Fall, Sinclair or Doheny. The last two he had never met or communicated with. During the first two weeks in January while the Secretary was at Palm Beach on vacation, he had encountered Mr. McLean on the golf course. Later he had called on the McLeans and had met Mr. Fall who was visiting them. They had talked about the Volstead Act, golf, the weather, the Mellon tax plan. Teapot Dome, not then such...
...Bascom Slemp, the President's private secretary, knows men and politics, but the kind of politics he knows is machine politics and machine politics is not what is putting Mr. Coolidge over...
...Bascom Slemp, Secretary to President Coolidge: "It became known that John Fox, novelist and one-time husband of Fritzi Scheff, was a boyhood friend of mine in Virginia, that we often went fishing, that I am said to be the original of a character in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine...
Henry Cabot Lodge, senior Senator from Massachusetts: "I made a call on President Coolidge, leaving my overcoat, as is the custom of presidential callers, in Secretary Slemp's room. Newspapers reported that, coming out, I 'walked jauntily away' with the ulster of Representative Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania, little noting the spacious effect the garment gave me until I encountered 'strange articles' in the pockets. Retracing my steps, I encountered Henry Cabot Lodge, III, my grandson, whilom Harvard student, now a reporter on the Boston Transcript. But I refused to grant him an interview...