Secret Service and the Presidents
Historian William Seale has described presidential protection as a learning process, with presidents and their families and the Secret Service...
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White House Christmases Past
The White House observance of Christmas before the twentieth century was not an official event. First families decorated the house...
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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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White House "Contractor's Salvage" Revived
Through its long years, the White House has seen many renovations, including the most recent one that was almost total....
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Arlington's Ceremonial Horses and Funerals at the White House
Though presidential personalities and policies can generate deep chasms during their term of service, the death of a president evokes...
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Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day," 12/26/1942
WASHINGTON, Friday—I returned yesterday morning a little bit late, but in plenty of time to get over to Arlington, Va...
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Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day," 12/26/1938
Washington, Sunday—Christmas Day and Christmas Eve lie behind us. The 24th of December is always for me the embodiment of...
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Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day," 12/26/1939
WASHINGTON, Monday—Saturday was really a hectic day for me, ending up with a few minutes broadcast right in the mi...
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The Presidential Sweet Tooth
As the holidays approach, thoughts inevitably turn to sugar plums, gingerbread, and all of the other delectable treats that season...
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Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day," 12/25/1936
WASHINGTON—Yesterday afternoon James1 and Betsey and their two children arrived and the children settled down on the third floor wh...
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Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day," 1/4/1937
WASHINGTON, Sunday—I said goodbye to Franklin, Junior1 on Friday afternoon and took the five o'clock train to New York, ex...
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Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day," 1/20/1945
WASHINGTON, Friday—I arrived back in Washington yesterday morning and plunged into a vortex of inauguration preparations. I went to me...