Collection The White House Social Secretary
For more than one hundred years, White House Social Secretaries have displayed a profound knowledge of protocol and society in...
Edith Kermit Roosevelt
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Edith Kermit Roosevelt
Edith Kermit Roosevelt in 1901.
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