Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-02-22 | Page 2 | Famous White House Dinner.

FAMOUS WHITE HOUSE DINNER DINNEE In Iii his hlA Chapters From My Experience ence Mr Booker T. T Washington in the February Worlds World's Work thus de describes de scribes the much discussed dinner with President Roosevelt At At the hour appointed I went to the white house and dined with the p and members of hl hIt family and with a gentleman from Colorado After dinner we talked at considerable rable length concern concern- ing lag plans about aboul the south which the I president J had in mind I left the white white- whitehouse house almost Imm immediately and took look a train the same night for New York I when I reached New York tho the next morning I noticed d that the New York Tribune had about two lines Hues stating that I had dined Ith the thc president the previous DUll Dub night That was tho only New York paper apeT so far fai a I as all I J saw MW that mentioned the the- matt matter r. r Within With a few hours the whole incident completely passed from my tny mind My surprise can be Imagined when two or three days art afterward the whole press north and south was fUl fLied filled d with dispatches and editorials relating to my dinner with the tho president nt For days dys and weeks I was t pursued by reporters In Cu quest Sl of or Interviews le Some newspapers en attempted to weave Into this incident a. a deliberate and well planned i scheme on the tho part Dart of President Piel- Piel dent Roosevelt to lead the WL way In bring bring- about the social intermingling of the th two two- rac races li I t am sure lIure that nothing was a farther from the presidents president mind mine than this certainly it wo as not nol in my mind