At his receptions he wore a black velvet suit with gold buckles at the knee and on his shoes, and yellow gloves, and profusely powdered hair carried in a silk bag behind.

In one hand he held a cocked hat with an ostrich plume; on his left thigh he wore a sword in a white scabbard of polished leather.

He shook hands with no one; but acknowledged the courtesy of his visitors by a very formal bow.

When he drove, it was in a coach with four or six handsome horses and outriders and lackeys dressed in resplendent livery.
After his inauguration he spoke his address to the Congress, and several days later members of the House and of the Senate called on him at his residence and made formal replies to his Inaugural Address.
After a few weeks, experience led him to modify somewhat his daily schedule.

He found that unless it was checked, the insatiate public would consume all his time.