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Uncle Joe Cannon, who keeps alive the torch of American humor...Ridiculing the idea that everything in the White House must stay there forever, he said, “When Adams was President, the family washing was hung to dry in the East Room.” Then, raising his hands to heaven, he exclaimed, “My God! Where are those clothespins?”
— Mar 22, 2021 12:47PM
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A difference of thirty minutes in a schedule was an unconsidered trifle to many of them [foreign visitors].Our official badge was so flamboyant that we shrank from wearing it, but the hemisphere of brass with four inches of tricolor ribbon back of it soon abundantly justified itself. It could be seen afar off, and a description of it to a policeman often resulted in the prompt capture and return of straying statesmen
— Mar 22, 2021 01:14PM
