THE PRESIDENCY: Anabasis

Forth from the White House followed by innumerable attendants, Mr. and Mrs. Warren G. Harding set out on a 1,500 mile journey to Alaska and return. A seven car train, with a specially built car, the Superb, embodying a rear platform rostrum, and a reception room, and a communication department completely equipped for telephone, telegraph and radio communication, carried the President's party.

In the retinue were Secretary Work, Speaker Gillett of the House, General Sawyer (White House physician), secret service men, stenographers, messengers, secretaries, secretaries of Secretaries, 22 journalists, five photographers and...

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