THE PRESIDENCY: Just Running Around

Last week the White House, all torn up for alterations, was deserted. Even Kentucky Colonel Louis McHenry Howe had gone off to Massachusetts for a vacation. None of the Roosevelts would be back at least until the elevator had been repaired.

President Roosevelt was scarcely well out to sea aboard the Houston before Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman (Todhunter School) and Nancy Cook (Val-Kill furniture) rolled out of Washington on the four wheels of the First Lady's tan Buick coupe. On an "off the record'' vacation...

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