imperial yacht in new york and he traveled all around the united states. this was a stag dinner. invited, alle military officers, maybe because it was a german prince but you can see how exotic it looked. to have a dinner that big they couldn't fit it in the state dining room, so they headed in the east room. the food came up from the kitchen and dinner was kind of cold. as of the things he had done part of that renovation was two and large the state dining room so they could have better meals in the house and modernized the east room. inner roosevelt, in 1903.y john singer the story says that teddy roosevelt was coming down the stairs when sergeant was at the bottom of the stairs and he said when will you let me paint your portrait, i have been hired to do this and you never sit still, he put his hand up and said, paint me now. the problem is that post doesn't show up on any white house staircase. the concept may have been right i don't think the artist actually painted what he found. but it is one of the best portraits in the white house collection. wifeore roosevelt and his hired the architects to do renovation of the public rooms which i