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....
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 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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Collection The Presidents
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 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 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 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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White House Brides and Envisioned Flowers
The first really grand White House wedding was Nellie Grant’s. For this President and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant had th...
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Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day," 12/8/1941
WASHINGTON, Sunday—I was going out in the hall to say goodbye to our cousins, Mr.1 and Mrs. Frederick Adams,2 an...
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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...
