"It's queer what things stick in a child's mind. I can still remember where we used to have our supper, and the general plan of that part of the White House where we were allowed to play. I can also remember our last day there, when we were waiting for the carriage to convey us to the railway station. I remember the satisfaction with which I wore my little gloves in preparation for the journey. There is one thing I do not remember, but which members of the family have told me. I was sitting there very primly, waiting to leave the White House, when one of the attaches said, teasingly: "Why are you leaving us?" I am supposed to have replied: "'Cause there can't be two presidents!""
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Esther Cleveland Bosanquets, Alton Evening Telegraph (25 May 1934)
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Esther Cleveland
Esther Cleveland (September 9, 1893 – June 25, 1980) was the second child of Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States, and his wife Frances Folsom Cleveland.
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