A History of White House Flowers and Florists
April showers might bring May flowers, but White House florists keep the executive mansion in bloom year round. Today the...
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Hoover Easter Egg Rolls
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Raccoons at the White House
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Lady Bird Johnson's Floral Legacy
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"A Beautiful Spot Capable of Every Improvement"
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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...
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White House Pigeons
As any visitor to Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. will tell you, pigeons are a universal feature of the...
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Patricia Nixon’s Visitor Friendly White House
Not long after she became First Lady, Pat Nixon was asked what she planned to focus on in her new...
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First Ladies and Cherry Blossoms
Every spring, the National Cherry Blossom Festival commemorates the 1912 gift of 3,020 cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo, Japan,...
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The White House Garden Tours
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Benjamin Banneker
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A Celebration for Veterans
At the end of World War I, over 200,000 wounded soldiers returned home to the United States. To help these veterans...