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Show "APT'S LAST DAY AS PRESIDENT, lids Staff Farewell and Gives Formal! Welcome to Successor", WashingtonPresident Taft's last ay In tba White House waa one of la busiest As a working day it did j ot last more than ten hours, but It raa crowded with unusual events, full f incidents that fall to the man who Its In the White House, and crowned ritb pleasantries. The preslden. book hands with several hundred cit-ten cit-ten and officials of the government; celved scores of telegrams from -lends all over the .world; signed his am to pl!e after pile of pictures and (tiers, and held three receptions, lie uttted the room he has occupied for mr years In the executive offices ltb a smile and without a backward lane, and with many a pleasant rec-llectlon rec-llectlon of the daya be has spent re. He met hla old time friends t the Washington diplomatic corps nd the J unt lee of the supreme court k the White House, and last of all e gave the first formal welcome in iat mansion to the president-elect nd Mrs. Wilson. |