Quentin's behavior prompted his mother, Edith, to label him a "fine bad little boy." Amongst Quentin's many adventures with the "White House Gang" (a name assigned by T.R. to Quentin and his friends), Quentin carved a baseball diamond on the White House lawn without permission, defaced official presidential portraits in the White House with spitballs, threw snowballs from the White House's roof at unsuspecting Secret Service guards, and occasionally rode on top of the family elevator with his friend, Charlie Taft. Charlie, the son of Secretary of War and future President William Howard Taft, was also part of the White House Gang.