The Republicans are trying "to put him in a political hole," and they say he, too, is playing politics.

Whoever be to blame for it, it is true that politics is in the game.

Nobody seems to foresee who will make capital out of it.
Surely I can't.
There's no social sense at the White House.

The President has at his table family connections only--and they say few or no distinguished men and women are invited, except the regular notables at the set dinners--the diplomatic, the judiciary, and the like.

His table is his private family affair--nothing more.