I have just asked these questions in the Pentagon, in the White House, in offices of key scientists across the country and aboard the submarines that prowl for months underwater, with neat rows of green launch tubes which contain Polaris missiles and which are affectionately known as `` Sherwood Forest ''.

Sometimes, Mrs. Coolidge would close herself in the Green Suite on the second floor, and play the piano she had brought to the White House.

All the rest of the days in the White House would be shadowed by the tragic loss, even though the President tried harder than ever to make his little dry jokes and to tease the people around him.

Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.

One White House dog was immortalized in a painting.

He showed them what to do, and taught them how to keep the maids around the White House in a state of terror.

They seemed to be at the White House half the time.

The White House had chewing gum until it could chew no more, and every Christmas, Mr. Wrigley sent the President a check for $100, to be divided among all the help.

The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.

She was not an overnight guest in the White House, but Mr. Ike Hoover, the chief usher, had Mama check her fur coat when she came in, and take care of her needs.

Mama was very patriotic, and one of the duties she was proudest of was repairing the edges of the flag that flew above the White House.

Taking a personal interest, she had the doctor assigned to the White House, Dr. James Coupal, look Emmett over.

On the social side, the chore Mama had at the formal receptions at the White House thrilled her the most.

The Coolidges did not always live at the White House during the Presidency.

In the midst of this gloom, at 10:05 P.M. on September 2, Slocum's telegram to Stanton, `` General Sherman has taken Atlanta '', shattered the talk of a negotiated peace and boosted Lincoln into the White House.

Nor does Sen. Jackson discuss the delicate situation created by the presence in the White House of a corps of presidential assistants engaged in the study of foreign policy.

Recently Treasury Secretary Dillon and Labor Secretary Goldberg fell into line with Mr. Hodges' appraisal, though there has been some reluctance to do so at the White House.

The White House itself has taken steps to remove a former Batista official, Col. Mariano Faget, from his preposterous position as interrogator of Cuban refugees for the Immigration Service.

His advisers in the Politburo ( White House ) are engaged in a great struggle of opinions, so he is not always consistent.

-- No doubt there have been moments during every Presidency when the man in the White House has had feelings of frustration, exasperation, exhaustion, and even panic.

On April 25, the White House reported that a total embargo of remaining U.S. trade with Cuba was being considered.

`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!

( `` It is always of sorrow to me when I find people who neither know nor understand music '', he declared not long ago in proposing that White House prizes be awarded for music and art.

He provoked outraged editorials when, after a post-Inaugural inspection of the White House with Mrs. Kennedy, he remarked to reporters, `` We just cased the joint to see what was there ''.

Already the President and the First Lady have deputized him to advise on matters ranging from the furnishing of the White House to the renovation of Lafayette Square.

-- Acting hastily under White House pressure, the Senate tonight confirmed Robert C. Weaver as the nation's federal housing chief.

The First Lady has her own staff that includes a chief of staff, press secretary, White House Social Secretary, Chief Floral Designer, etc.

A bureau chief stated, " If any member had been excluded it would have been the same thing, it has nothing to do with Fox or the White House or the substance of the issues ".

HOPE was first proposed to White House chief of staff John Sununu in June 1989 to create enterprise zones, increase subsidies for low-income renters, expand social services for the homeless and elderly, and enact tax changes to help first-time home buyers.

Soon after Clayton Yeutter was appointed chief White House domestic policy advisor, Kemp's Economic Empowerment Task Force was abolished.

Wright hired a new governance chief to oversee ethical and legal compliance and established a new board composed of former government officials, including former White House counsel Jack Quinn and Ashcroft.

Later still, T. H. White featured Robin and his band in The Sword in the Stone – anachronistically, since the novel's chief theme is the childhood of King Arthur.

An elected Vice President does not require Senate confirmation, nor do White House staff positions ( e. g. the chief of staff or press secretary ).

* June 23 – Watergate Scandal: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the C. I. A.

The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor ( abbreviated NSA, or sometimes APNSA or ANSA to avoid confusion with the abbreviation of the National Security Agency ), is a senior official in the Executive Office of the President who serves as the chief advisor, stationed in the White House, to the President of the United States on national security issues.

By 1900, the White House staff included one " secretary to the president " ( then the title of the president's chief aide ), two assistant secretaries, two executive clerks, a stenographer, and seven other office personnel.

* Ahchuchhwahauhhatohapit ( Ahchacoosacootacoopits-‘ Starblanket ’, Chief of a band of Calling River Cree ( Kātēpwēwi-sīpīwiyiniwak ), born about 1845 in the lower Qu ’ Appelle Valley, son of Wāpiy-mōsētōsis (" White Calf "), his tribal group was closely associated with the Ka Kichi Wi Winiwak under the leadership of chief Kakeesheway (‘ Loud Voice ’), and a close ally of Payipwāt (" Piapot "), the chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or " Young Dogs ", 1879 after the disappearance of the bison Ahchuchhwahauhhatohapit settled on a reserve in the File Hills of the lower Qu ' Appelle Valley, died 1917 in the Star Blanket reserve, Saskatchewan )

* In the book The Ends of Power, Nixon's chief of staff H. R. Haldeman claimed that the term " Bay of Pigs ", mentioned by Nixon in a tape-recorded White House conversation as the reason the CIA should put a stop to the Watergate investigations, was used by Nixon as a coded reference to a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro during the John F. Kennedy administration.

His efforts did not go unrewarded ; on January 7, 1587 Raleigh named “ John White of London Gentleman, to be the chief Governor ” of the new colony, acting under the authority of the Virginia Company.

Senior members of the White House staff including, Counselor Meese, Chief of Staff James A. Baker III, and Michael Deaver were concerned that the proposed reorganization took too much power out of the President's hands and that an activist Secretary of State operating with wide powers could eclipse the President in his public role as the chief enunciator of U. S. foreign policy.

Clinch took a force of more than 100 American soldiers and about 150 Lower Creek warriors, including the chief Tustunnugee Hutkee ( White Warrior ), to protect their passage.

The chief state routes are Route 31, a north-south road that runs from Buttzville in White Township to Trenton, and Route 57 that runs between Lopatcong Township to Hackettstown.

White settlers built log cabins in the area in the first half of the 19th century, naming their settlement Chilletecaux in honor of a Delaware Indian chief who lived there.

* John H. Sununu ( b. 1939 ), White House chief of staff and the 75th governor of New Hampshire

* G. Gordon Liddy ( born 1930 ), chief of the White House Plumbers.

The Whitesboro seal displays a notable friendly wrestling match between founder Hugh White and a local Oneida chief.

" Another stone, dated 1598, indicated that Eleanor had married the " king " of the tribe, while another said she had borne the chief a daughter, the tribe was angry, and asked for White to send the infant girl to England.