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2023.055.3.0368Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of President Calvin Coolidge sitting in a meeting with his cabinet. Above the image "31" is printed, below the image "29472 Presiden Coolidge 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 Officies, directly opposite, to enjoy a privilege very rarely accorded to any visitor in Washington, except by our method of travel ; a view of the President and the ten members of his Cabinet, during an official session. To such meetings practically no oustider is ever admitted. Each of these men, under the direction of President Colidge, is the guiding spirit of one of the great executive departments of the Government. We are standing so close that we could easily converse with any one of them. Sitting from left to right, on the left side of the table are President Coolidge ; Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury; Jon G. Sasgent, Attorney General; Curtis W. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy; William M. Jardine, of Agriculture; Jame J. Davis of Labor, and Herbert hoover of Commerce. On the right side of the table the one furthest away is Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interiior, and next to him, is Harry S. New, Postmaste 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 members the Secretary of State sits at the President's right.
Until 1902 the President and his Cabinet met regularly in apartments in teh S. E. part of the second sotyr of the White House. Since then they ahve emt in the new Cabinet Room in which we are standing. though of such recent origin, the latter is already historic. Here President Roosevel and Presidnet Taft met with their advisors, and here Woodrown Wilson labored with his cabinet over the tremendous and complex problems pretained by the World War.
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