THE PRESIDENCY: Good Form

All the ex-tenants of the White House —Mrs. Thomas J. Preston Jr. (formerly Cleveland), Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. William Howard Taft, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover, and also Mrs. Benjamin Harrison who never was a tenant*—were sent invitations last week to attend the second inaugural of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jan. 20. The political sympathies of few if any of the invitees would lead them to attend, but if they declined they would miss an opportunity to see the present tenant of the White House in his...

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