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Matthew C. Sherman

Matthew Sherman is the director of programs at the Institute for Political History. He is currently preparing his doctoral dissertation, on presidential security from Thomas Jefferson to Theodore Roosevelt, for publication with an adacemic press.

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    Livery at the White House

    On Saturday, October 24, 1903, the sensationalist New York World reported that President Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary, William Loeb Jr., outfitted the messengers at the White House in “uniforms of dark blue material with shining nickel buttons.” The World also noted that “it is Mr. Loeb’s intention to put all the employees around the White House and executive offices in uniforms.”1 For Roosevel