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.

Historian Graham White describes the treaty of Winchester as a " precarious peace ", capturing the judgement of most modern historians that the situation in late 1153 was still uncertain and unpredictable.

Wade's radicalism is thought by many historians to be a major reason why the Senate, which did not want to see Wade in the White House, acquitted Johnson.

Both houses used a rose emblem, a Red Rose for Lancaster and a White Rose for York, so the conflict between the two houses was dubbed the " Wars of the Roses " by historians.

However, some historians suggest the county was named for Revolutionary War General James White, the founder of Knoxville.

Historian Graham White describes the treaty of Winchester as a " precarious peace ", capturing the judgement of most modern historians that the situation in late 1153 was still uncertain and unpredictable.

Some historians have claimed that the garden front portico of Áras an Uachtaráin ( which can be seen by the public from the main road through the Phoenix Park ) was used as a model by Irish architect James Hoban, who designed the White House in Washington, D. C.

Some historians have argued that the historians trying to correct for anti-Spanish bias in the description of Spanish colonialism went too far in the opposite direction andto the degree that they created a White Legend describing Spain's history in an exaggeratedly positive way.

" Economic historians such as Eugene White, have however stressed the negative role played by Calonne who continued the restoration of a venal system of financial administration.

The term is commonly used in historical studies as a neutral descriptor of Southern White Republicans, though some historians have discarded the term due to its history of pejorative connotations.

Local historians maintain that two important temples in Haa district, the Black Temple and the White Temple were built at the same time as Kyerchu Temple in Paro in the 7th century AD.

Some historians believe that President Taft appointed White, who was 65 years old at the time and overweight, in the hope that White would not serve all that long and that Taft himself might someday be appointed —- which is just what happened eleven years later.

Although historians often say that the building was completed in 1937, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia was born in the White Palace in 1936, so it is safe to say that it was completed at that time.

Major published items include Unemployment, ( 1979 ), which analysed the economic causes and social consequences of unemployment in Australia and advocated a socialist response ; The Media: a New Analysis of the Press, Television, Radio and Advertising in Australia, ( 1984 ), on the political economy and content of the news and entertainment media ; The Killing of History, ( 1994 ), a critique of postmodernism in history ; The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847, ( 2002 ), which accuses a number of Australian historians of falsifying and inventing the degree of violence in the past ; The White Australia Policy, ( 2004 ), a history of that policy which argues that academic historians have exaggerated the degree of racism in Australian history ; and The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume Three: The Stolen Generations 1881-2008, which argues the story of the " stolen generations " of Aboriginal children is a myth.

For some of his critics, ' historians don't just interpret the evidence: they compose stories about these meanings, or in the words of Hayden White, they ' emplot ' the past.

The Culmer White achieved everlasting renown amongst historians of the lifeboat service in 1857 with its sister boat on the occasion of the rescue of the Northern Belle.

Some historians trace White Terror to 28 October 1917, when Moscow cadets captured revolutionary soldiers of the 56th Reserve Regiment, ordered them to line up ostensibly to check the Alexander II monument, and then proceeded to open fire with machine guns and rifles on unarmed people.

In addition of the instigator of the reunion, Leszek I the White, were also present his brother Konrad I of Masovia, Henry I the Bearded, Wladyslaw Odonic ( whose assistance is disputed by historians ), the entire episcopate and numerous representatives of Polish magnate families.

Notable Australian writers have included the novelists Marcus Clarke, Miles Franklin, Patrick White, Thomas Keneally, Morris West and Colleen McCullough, the bush poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, historians Manning Clark and Geoffrey Blainey, the playwright David Williamson and leading expatriate writers Barry Humphries, Robert Hughes, Clive James and Germaine Greer.

In White Heat ( Knopf, 2008 ), an account of Higginson's friendship with Dickinson, author Brenda Wineapple credits Higginson with more editorial sensitivity than literary historians have assumed.

The Unknown Archon is a conventional name given by historians to the Serbian leader who led the White Serbs from their homeland to settle in the Balkans after 610, during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius ( 610 – 641 ).

However, in recent years, historians such as Hayden White have argued that the style of the chronicles depict a worldview that is distinctly medieval where " things happen to people rather than one in which people do things.