 She hosts 40,000 guests in the first year in the White House. She begins the salons that bring artists and musicians and poets into the White House. In addition to reading four or five newspapers a day, being the better judge of character, being the first one to talk to her husband in the morning and the last one at night. But she makes physical changes to the White House, too. She hires McKim, Mead, and White, because BAMI recommends them.