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Halloween

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I figure that since it’s nearing Halloween, we need to learn about some of the spooks and ghosts still rambling and roaming around in the White House. I’ll save the best for last and begin with who supposedly have seen which apparitions that float around the floors of our Executive Mansion. President Lincoln’s footman, Jerry Smith, believed that he saw the presidential spirits of Ulysses S. Grant, William McKinley, and a few first ladies. I don’t know which ones, but I question if Dolley Madison doesn’t attend balls wearing her empire waist, red ball gown. Eleanor Roosevelt’s secretary became very frightened at seeing President Lincoln’s ghost sitting on the bed. I think he’s probably wondering how he fit his long legs in and under the sheets. Did he keep his stovepipe hat beside him at night so he could riffle through all the pages he’d stuck inside of it? The same person also had encounters with Andrew Jackson. He’s probably wondering if he’s still considered, Old Hick