White House Dinner for Cabinet and Supreme Court

January 21, 1864

Navy Secretary Gideon Welles writes in his diary that “the President gave a dinner to the members of the Cabinet, judges of the Supreme Court, and a few others, with their wives. It was pleasant. A little stiff and awkward on the part of some of the guests, but passed off very well.”

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