ON THIS DAY IN 1909 , the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The President of the United States is now provided with working quarters which, in capacity and appointments, afford a fit channel for the rapidly swelling volume of executive business. What is more, the newly completed annex to the White House is, architecturally, much more in keeping than was its predecessor with the dignity of the position of Chief Magistrate of the Republic. In substance, the building project just completed, and upon which upward of $50,000 has been expended, constitutes a doubling of the size of the original office building which was erected in 1902, during the Roosevelt administration. In effect, however, this enlargement has significance aside from the expansion of office space, for it serves to meet all the

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