Podcast
250 Years of American Political Leadership
Featuring Iain Dale, award-winning British author and radio and podcast host
The Working West Wing: David Hume Kennerly
Gallery
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August 12, 1974. President Ford in the Oval Office days after assuming the Presidency after Nixon's resignation. The shelves which contained Nixon items are still empty.
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September 8, 1974. President Ford in Bill Timmons office in the West Wing moments after signing the pardon of Richard Nixon.
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March 28, 1975. In an ironic moment President Ford and his National Security Council have nothing to say as they sit under a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt in the Roosevelt room. During this meeting President Ford ordered the final withdrawal of Americans from Vietnam.
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November, 1976. In their first meeting since the election, President Ford congratulates President-elect Jimmy Carter for winning the election.
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January 19, 1977. First Lady Betty Ford strikes a pose on the Cabinet Room table a day before she and the President were to leave office. Said Mrs. Ford, "I always wanted to dance on the Cabinet Room table!"
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President Ronald Reagan at work in the Oval Office in 1982.
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January 20, 1993. President Bush's desk is removed from the Oval Office as incoming President Bill Clintons desk waits to be assembled in the background.
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February, 1996. President Bill Clinton at ease behind his desk in the Oval Office.
White House photo by David Hume Kennerly
About this Gallery
This gallery contains photographs by Pulitzer Prize winning photographer David Hume Kennerly, submitted to a Call for West Wing Photographs sponsored by the White House Historical Association to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this executive office building first constructed in 1902. From this group of images, selected photographs were placed in an exhibition entitled: The photographs presented on this page portray the work-a-day world of the West Wing. These photographs are a small sample of the many photographs that David Hume Kennerly holds in his collections.
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