He went to the White House in 1914. American politics was to him very much what it was to other average citizens - a complex and integral part of national life, a sort of legislative marriage in which all citizens participated, and from which all derived a small or large share of security, pleasure, irritation and debt, along with a bountiful measure of humor. He went on to be the man whose Secret Service detail guarded five Presidents - Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt.