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Show Havens of Other Presidents by Lynn where the offices were located. In 1926 he chose an Adirondack "camp," near Paul Smith's. One of those primitive places millionaires build in the wilderness equipped with all the comforts of a modern hotel. Kirkwood Camp, owned by Irvin Kirkwood, a newspaper publisher, pub-lisher, was such a place, The next year Coolidge repaired to the Black Hills of South Dakota where he lived in a spacious lodge among the trout streams, guarded by a troop of cavalry and making a long, twice-weekly juurney to Rapid City to attend to affairs of state and interview the press. The next year he again went to Wisconsin and on an island in a lake 28 miles southeast of Superior, lived in Cedar Lodge, making necessary a 56-mile trip three times a week. President Hoover, when he took office, almost immediately went down into his own well-lined jeans and for $15,000 bought "Rapidan," another mountain stronghold in the Blue Ridges. When he left office he promptly deeded the tract to the commonwealth of Virginia, hoping perhaps, other presidential camp fires would burn there. But his sue cessor chose otherwise. Warm Springs belongs to the state of Georgia, countless thousands thou-sands will visit it, as they do Hyde Park and other local monuments. "Shangri-la" is now a part of the national park system. The next president, whoever he may be, may have it if he wishes, without extra expense to the taxpayer. tax-payer. But who knows? He may have a dream-house, realization of which wo need hardly begrudge him. ( Ever since the days of Buchanan almost every President has seen fit to flee the banks of the Potomac when Washington weather begins to lure the mercury to the top of the tube. Although the United States army began being hot weather host to chief executives in Buchanan's time and continued to do so into the regime of the dashing Arthur, it was because Lincoln lived at the "cottage" just within the Eagle Gate of the Soldiers' Home (now well within the city of Washington proper but once a distant suburb) that this summer White House became be-came famous as the Lincoln Cottage. Cot-tage. When Grover Cleveland became president, however, and shortly thereafter took a bride, he felt that it was improper to live on the army in the summer months. So he bought a place of his own called Red Oak on a high hill in the capital capi-tal now known, in honor of his short domicile there, as Cleveland Park. It was a plain farm house when he bought it but it soon blossomed into a comfortable home. Then Washington was a town of some 175,000 people (1886) and Cleveland had an unobstructed view over the whole panorama down to the Potomac itself. When he was defeated he sold the place. When reelected he bought another. an-other. That effectually ended the Soldiers' Sol-diers' Home tradition and it was really not until the time of President Presi-dent Taft that a "working" summer headquarters was set up. Other presidents took vacations Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt "went home" to his beloved Sagamore Hill on Oyster Bay with a secretary or two. President Presi-dent Taft went to Beverly, Mass. When President Wilson went to Cornish, N H., it was for rest and recuperation. In IMS he chose the imposing Shadow Lawn in New Jersey and by that time war was impending and his staff went with him. President Harding didn't want to "get away." He wanted people, lots of them, around him also 52 cards. President Coolidge, too, it was said, didn't know what to do with a vacation but he made as geographically geographi-cally varied a selection of summer White House sites as any president. First it was Swampscott where, as one dispatch put it, he was "tethered "teth-ered to a telegraph wire." As a matter of fact no telegraph wires actually entered "White Court," the great colonial mansion perched on the rim of New England's rock-bound rock-bound coast, but the telephone did and he made regular trips to near- I |