Coming Home to Washington
How do two unknown men get a memorial by a famous sculptor near the White House? Archibald Butt and Francis Millet were close friends and housemates, well known in the Washington social scene. Butt was a military aide to President Taft who had taken sick leave to go abroad and meet up with Millet. Butt may have been stressed over the feud between Taft and his former boss, Teddy Roosevelt. The two friends were returning on the Titanic when the ship went down. Friends commissioned Daniel Chester French, best known for the Lincoln Memorial, to memorialize the popular pair. President Taft made the first donation.
Francis Davis Millett had a long career as a writer and artist. He invented an early form of spray paint for the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.
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