THE GHOST IN THE WHITE HOUSE

SOME SUGGESTIONS AS TO HOW A HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE (WHO ARE SUPPOSED IN A VAGUE, HELPLESS WAY TO HAUNT THE WHITE HOUSE) CAN MAKE THEMSELVES FELT WITH A PRESIDENT—HOW THEY CAN BACK HIM UP—EXPRESS THEMSELVES TO HIM, BE EXPRESSED BY HIM, AND GET WHAT THEY WANT

By

GERALD STANLEY LEE

Author of "Crowds" and "Inspired Millionaires"

"The White House is haunted by a vague helpless abstraction,—by a kind of ghost of the nation, called The People"

NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & CO.
681 FIFTH AVENUE

Copyright, 1920
BY E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

All Rights Reserved

First printing        May, 1920

Printed in the United States of America

TO

JENNETTE LEE

CONTENTS

BOOK I

WHAT THE PEOPLE EXPECT OF THE PEOPLE

• Gist3
• The Lonesomest Job on Earth4
• The President and the Ghost6
• Real Folks and the Ghost12
• The Ghost Receives an Invitation16
• What a Body for the Ghost Would be Like20
• The Ghost gets Down to Business25
• Three Rights of Man in a Democracy—The Right to Think27
• The Right to be Waited On32
• The Right to Whisper36
• The Right to Whisper Together39
• The Right to Trust Somebody41
• The Right to Vote All Day46
• The Skilled Consumer48
• Sample Democracies51
• The Town Pendulum54
• The National Listening Machine58
• How the National Listening Machine Will Work62
• Making a Right Start64
• Up to the People66
• The Way for a Nation to Speak Up68

BOOK II

WHAT EACH MAN EXPECTS OF HIMSELF

• G. S. L. to Himself75
• If I Were a Nation78
• What the Mahogany Desk is Going to Do81
• Rules for Being Lied to85
• Getting One Man Right87
• Getting Fifty Men Right89