For the next “This Day in History” post, I came across this list of White House visitors for January 24th, 1912. A long list of prominent individuals visited President Taft that day, from the Italian Ambassador, to the Secretary of War and many Members of Congress.

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This is the early 20th century version of open government and transparency and it’s really interesting to see this printed in the newspaper.
Here’s a photo of Henry Stimson, Taft’s Secretary of War.

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