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“Invitations issued by Mrs. McKinley take precedence over all other invitations” –The 25th President of the United States, William McKinley and his wife, Ida Saxton McKinley |
The newspapers ridicule the new rules of etiquette at the White House, saying that President McKinley’s protocol will soon rival President Faures, who has long been taunted with adopting monarchial airs.
Vanity Fair, quoting the rule be ginning “Invitations issued by Mrs. McKinley take precedence over all other invitations” says: “Such rules prove that under the stars and stripes it is quite possible to be plus royaliste que le roi (more royalist than the King). We wonder what Lincoln would have said to any officious under-strapper suggesting such rules?” – Morning Union, 1898
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