Collection The Presidents
Biographies & Portraits
Roosevelt White House 1933-1945
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to office at the height of the Great Depression. He ushered in an environment of hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action for America. His wife, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, broke precedent to hold press conferences, travel and give lectures and radio broadcasts. The Roosevelts brought change and hope to the American people and the Executive Mansion.
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Collection The 2017 White House Christmas Ornament
Every year since 1981, the White House Historical Association has had the privilege of designing the Official White House Christmas Ornament....
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Collection Truman White House 1945 - 1953
President Harry S. Truman was close to his friends and associates, had a grin for strangers, but could be less...
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Collection Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day"
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
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Collection The First Ladies
Biographies & Portraits
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Bio Herbert Hoover
Son of a Quaker blacksmith, Herbert Clark Hoover brought to the presidency a luminous reputation as an engineer, administrator, and...
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Bio Warren G. Harding
Before his nomination, Warren G. Harding declared, "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not...
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Bio Eleanor Roosevelt
A shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the...
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Bio Franklin D. Roosevelt
Assuming the presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in...
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Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day," 6/7/1944
WASHINGTON, Tuesday—So at last we have come to D-Day, or rather, the news of it reached us over the ra...
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Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day," 12/29/1941
WASHINGTON, Sunday—A few people came in to tea on Friday afternoon. The President worked right through with the Prime Mi...
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Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day," 4/11/1939
WASHINGTON, Monday—We came down to Washington yesterday evening to find the trees in bud, the fountains playing outside the Wh...
