The White House—like most houses—has had its share of that most hair-raising problem of them all (war, revolutions and national defense notwithstanding): The In-Law Problem. Mary Todd Lincoln reportedly had several “kin whom Abe, despite his general kindliness, could not abide.” James Polk, an otherwise...
PART IV
On June 20, 1956, the New York Post ran the story of the imminent marriage between Marilyn and Arthur Miller. The civil ceremony was on June 29, followed by the wedding according to Jewish ritual on July 1, for which Marilyn had converted to...