The Triumphant Life of Theodore Roosevelt edited by J. Martin Miller

THE HOME OF THE PRESIDENT 71
is small, the percentage of these who have become assassins in
the last half century is also small. The nation suffered the
loss of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley at the hands of assas-
sins. In none of these cases did any one know but themselves
of their desperate intentions.
President Roosevelt has shaken hands with as many as
three thousand people at the White House in a single day.
At the public receptions, which are held at night, four or five
times each winter, he has taken the hand of as many as five
thousand people several times during the social season. The
daily stream of visitors who come to call upon the President
always see him at the White House office. Cabinet officers,
senators and congressmen always walk right in by the door-
keeper, for it is not necessary for them to send in their cards.
After passing through the little ante-room where Captain
Loeffler sits, there is a door on the right leading into the
reception room which is between the large room of the Presi-
dent's private secretary and the President's own private ofifice,
with doors connecting all three rooms. Straight ahead from
the ante-room entrance is the door leading into the cabinet
room, where the President and the cabinet meet on Tuesdays
and Fridays of each week.
CONSIDERATE OF OLD SOLDIERS
Distinguished callers, such as those mentioned above, in
case the President is engaged in his private office, wait until
he is ready to see them by sitting in the reception room or the
cabinet room. Visitors not belonging to the official family
hand their card to Captain Loeftler, who presents it to the
President. The President instructs Captain Loeffler when he
will be able to see the visitor. President Roosevelt is very
considerate of the old soldier who drops into Washington and