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Show FRIEND OF PRESIDENTS Leonard Wood Made Good at White 2. House Surgeon, i r. Leh'riard Wood was ordered to Wash-Injlryiiln Wash-Injlryiiln 1693 the morgue of the government gov-ernment official to become assistant attending surgeon. The holder of this office often shares with the navy surgeons sur-geons tho responsibility of tnedlrnl attention at-tention to the president. In uddlllou he acts as medical adviser to army officers of-ficers and their families nnd Is the official of-ficial physician to the secretary of war. ' It was not an office that appealed to Captain Wood. It could not, since he was a man essentially of out-of-doors, of action nnd of administration. Yet ho seems to have made such n success of tho work that he became the personal friend of both Cleveland and McKlnley. Ills relations with President Cleveland were of the most Intimate sort, resulting from mutual re..peet nnd liking os well as from mutual mu-tual understanding on the part of both men of the other's good qlialltlos. llu MW him In the Whltu House lit all hours of the day and night; saw him with his family and his children about him ; noted their fondness for their father fa-ther and his devotion to the:u- It was a quality so marked In Lincoln, so strong In most great men of the Round, calm, fearless, administrative sort. Leonard Wood himself has exhibited the same quality In his own family. And In theo days tho perfect under-Handing under-Handing of tho father nnd his children, chil-dren, the Hlmple family life that went on In tho splendid old house In Washington Wash-ington which combined tho dignity of a Mute and the simplicity of u home unequnlcd by nny other great ruler's house upon this earth all tended to bring out this native quality of the president's medical udvlser. |