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2023.055.3.0190Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of an interior room of the White House, President Coolidge is seated with his Cabinet. Above the image "T7 (Star)" is printed, below the image "29472T The President of the Untied States and His Cabinet, Washington, D. C." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
29472
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE AND HIS CABINET, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Descending from our point of vantage in the State, War and Navy Building, we have now crossed 17th St. to the Executive Offices, directly opposite, to enjoy a privilege very rarely accorded to any visitor in Washington, except by our method of travel; a veiw of the President and the ten members of his Cabinet, during an official session. To such meetings practically no outsider is ever admitted. Each of these men, under the direction of President Coolidge, is the guiding spirit of one of the great executive departmetns of the Government. We are standing so close that we coud easily converse with any one of them. Sitting from left to right, on the left side of the table, they are ; President Coolidge; Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury; John G. Sargent, Attorney General; Curtis W. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy; William M. Jardine, of Agriculture; James J. Davis, of Labor, and Herber Hoover, of Commerce. On the right side of the table the one furthest away is Hurbert Work, Secretary of the Interior, and next to him , is Harry S. New, Postmaster General, after whom comes Dwight F. Davis, Secretary of War, and then, nearest at hand, Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State. As the Senior Cabinet member the Secretary of State sits at the President's right.
Until 1902 the President and his Cabinet met regularly in apartments in the S. E. part of the second story of the White House. Since then they have met in the new Cabinet Room in which we are standing. Though of such recent origin, the latter is already historic. Here President Roosevelt and President Taft met with their advisors, and here Woodrow Wilson labored with his cabinet over the tremendous and complex problems presented by the World War.
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