This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...between certain hours, usually from 9:30 or 10 A. M. until 1 P. M., except on Mondays; but the hours and the exception are very little regarded, and it is a rare piece of good fortune during the early months of an administration if the President gets one wholly uninterrupted hour at his desk each day. His time ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...between certain hours, usually from 9:30 or 10 A. M. until 1 P. M., except on Mondays; but the hours and the exception are very little regarded, and it is a rare piece of good fortune during the early months of an administration if the President gets one wholly uninterrupted hour at his desk each day. His time is so broken into bits that he is often driven to late night work, or to set up a desk in his bedroom, when preparing a message or other paper requiring unbroken attention. Thoughtlessness is the root of all this. "I only want five minutes "; and if he were the only one it could be spared; but his double is at his heels, and the urgent public business is postponed or done at night with a jaded mind. It may be said that untimely visitors should be excluded, and so they should; but thoughtfulness on their part would be a cure without a smart. The President's messenger brings in the cards or announces orally the names of the visitors, and they are admitted singly, or all are ushered, as they arrive, into the President's office, as he may direct. He usually receives them standing near his desk--especially when a number are present--and in the order of their official station, if they are public officers. Those not engaged with the President stand back, and the conversation with each, as he is received, is conducted in a low tone that secures some degree of privacy. There are many Senators and Representatives, often accompanied by friends or constititents, either singly or in delegations, sometimes simply to pay their respects, but more often to urge some appointment. In the latter case the President listens, and seems to the applicant to be painfully reticent. He concludes the brief interview by The saying: "Please file your...
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