The Life of William McKinley

ISBN: 9781330854471 出版年：2016 页码：447 Charles S Olcott Forgotten Books

Secretary to the President, was associated with him more intimately than any other man, kept a close lookout for biographical material. With a thorough ness and care seldom if ever equaled, he treasured all the official and private correspondence, documents of every description, memoranda in the President's handwriting, drafts of speeches and messages, re ports of telephone conversations, photographs, pam phlets, and countless other items of interest. In addition he preserved his own shorthand notes of occasional remarks made by the President, and kept a diary in which were recorded, from a peculiarly intimate point of view, all the daily happenings of importance, in the White House, at Canton, or in the trains which carried the President to various parts of the country.