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Index
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Prologue: White House Under the Gun
How It All Began
Nineteenth Century
But First This Footnote
And Now, Bless This House
First to Come, First to Go
Boardinghouse Manners
Daily Mission Accomplished
Joe and Edy Saga
Discovery Corps
Looted, Burned…Gone
White Lodge Visited
Early Social Doings
Skinny-Dipper
Chippewa Revenge
White House Honeymoon
“Royal Pup” Chastised
Prophetic Words Repeated
A Most Rowdy Party
Horses
Dolley’s Black Benefactor
Old Compatriot’s Visit
Violent Reaction
Dinner with Old Hickory
A Most Famous Tree
Three Days of Oratory
Steppingstone President
“Mrs. Presidentress”
Busy, Busy, Too Busy
Midcentury Melodrama
Slaves in the Attic
End to an Affair
Lincoln’s Farewell to Herndon
Lincoln Escapes a Trap
Reportage at Close Quarters
Early Blow for Lincoln
Writing the Great Document
Honest Man at Gettysburg
“This Damned Old House”
Ugly Fellow Encountered
Lincoln and Stanton
Persistent Bodyguard
Ford Theatre Aftermath
For the Record
Public Audience Room
Crusade Sabotaged
Rebel in the House
President…in Secret
Workers All
Drama Behind a Desk
Collaborators
Dire Events Flared
Fit for Clerks
Sickroom Cooled
Roaring Crowd
Bachelor Status Ended
A Most Courageous Patient
Progress Report
Born There
Wedded There
Died There
Twentieth Century
Auspicious Change
“Doing Nothing”
Controversy Over Dinner
Alice’s Bad Idol
Wretched Little Sofa
High-Toned Ball
Silver Jubilee
Hooting at Owls
“Looked Like a Dead Man”
Alice’s “Majicks”
Another View on Wilson
Boy with Message
“You Yellow Rat!”
Funeral Train
Coolidge’s Favorite Prank
Dancing in the Moonlight
Bookends
Oval Office Gutted
Herbert the Modern
Fishing Was His Passion
“Get That Father Out of Jail!”
One Dread Moment
Man Reclining on Bed
Outlaw of Falahill
Wartime White House
Guests from the Street
More of Progress
Visiting Mothers
Happy Days Afloat
Unofficial Annex
White House Visit
Harry Homebody
Buzzing the White House
A Swim in the Potomac
Poker Players, Do Your Duty
Passing the Baton
Early Presidential Crisis
New Boss in Town
Sentimental Evenings
Presidential Spy Plane
Press Conference Tactics
Jackie’s Painful Tour
Freedom at Last!
Jackie to the Rescue
JFK Misses Lunch
Rose Garden Created
1:00 p.m. in Dallas
Transition in Dallas
Long, Long Wait
Nickel-Plated Shovel
Locked Out
All the Way with LBJ
Telephonitis in the White House
Piece of Paper Misplaced
“Good to Be Home”
Hardly Anyone Knew Her
Nixon Resigns
Musical Office Spaces
Public Housing
Unfit for a Queen
Life After the White House
Day in the Life of…
Two- Stepping at the White House
Bungee Jump with No Rope
Anger in Stages
Impeachment Proceedings
Twenty-first Century
“We’re at War”
“Mr. President,” Said Each
New Life for a Senator
Gym Rat
Thrill for a White House Butler
Leavetakings
First Ladies in Review
The First Ladies
Acknowledgments and Further Readings
The Presidents and Their Terms
The First Ladies
Authors’ Note
About the Authors
Back Cover
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