Re: "Reclaiming the Frame"

According to a National Archives article, the first "White House Press Secretary" was Cabinet member George B. Cortelyou, of New York, (early Con-Ed CEO also) descended from the French surveyor hired by the Dutch to survey Brooklyn. He invited the press into the White House after President William McKinley was shot at the Panamerican Exposition in Buffalo, NY, Mr. Cortelyou had been standing next to him. As the press was told the condition of McKinley by Cortelyou and the tradition started they said. However, in their purview of them, they left out the first woman White House Press Secretary, Dee Dee Myers, who in the Clinton administration was White House Press Secretary for three years, strangely omitted from the article. Some historians have remarked, that since George B. Cortelyou held three (3) Cabinet posts during a particularly trying time, the assassination, the Spanish American War, etc., he remained in the Cabinet under Theodore Roosevelt (told on the eighth day after the shooting, in North Creek, NY by telegram that he was President, where nearby he had been climbing in the Adirondacks) that his papers (he died in Huntington, NY in 1940) should be reviewed by historians so far overlooked. He began teaching shorthand in NYC schools, then became Chairman of the Republican Party. I may be related to him by marriage or lack thereof.