National Affairs: First Lady

Grace Goodhue Coolidge, wife of the President, is universally well spoken of and liked. She is a college woman (University of Vermont), as was Mrs. Cleveland before her. As the wife of the Vice President her entertaining was not extensive or magnificent, but she was known as a gracious hostess. She made an exceptional number of friends, and has a remarkable memory for faces and names.

She succeeded Mrs. John R. Marshall as President of the Senate Ladies’ Club. Mrs. Marshall and Mrs. Harding both became good friends of hers.

When she enters the White House with her sons, John and Calvin, for the first time since the Taft administration, there will be children in the Executive Mansion. Both sons are students at Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania). This Summer John, 17, is in attendance at a military training camp (Mr. Coolidge is firm believer in military and naval preparedness),and Calvin, 15, is working at $3.50 a day on a vacation (tobacco) farm. Later in the Summer when Mrs. Coolidge enters the White House, it is understood that her children will join her.