Charles A. Stansfield

I had great hopes for this book but was very disappointed. I was thinking that I would read new stories that I hadn't heard of before. While that did happen the ones that were new to me weren't that good if having to do with a president at all. It had the usual that you would expect, Lincoln in the Queen's bedroom, Washington at Gettysburg. Ones I hadn't heard which were first ladies were such as Dolley Madison who shows up to keep workers from moving the Rose Garden, Mamie Eisenhower putting her knick knacks back in place after they were moved by a docent cleaning the curio cabinet. There were also tales of a Jefferson and one of his slaves seen relaxing on the porch of his country estate and another who's son is seen in tennis whites who passed in the white house after getting sepsis from a blister on one of his toes.… (altro)