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  Collection Presidents & Baseball

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  Collection Presidential Retreats

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• Sports & Recreation

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• The Soldiers' Home: First Presidential Retreat

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• An Introduction to "Away From the White House"

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• Social Dancing at the White House

  Social dancing was especially enjoyed during the terms of Benjamin Harrison and William McKinley and its popularity within the White...

• Easter Egg Roll: Games, Old and New

  The primary Easter Monday entertainment at the White House has always involved egg rolling. Participants roll dyed, hard-boiled eggs across...

• Presidential Valets

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• The United States Marine Band: Music as Diplomacy

  Music has been an essential part of life in the White House from the earliest days of our nation, not...

• "Off for the Ditch"

  Prior to President and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to Panama in 1906, no American president had set foot outside the co...

• "A Journey into Nowhere"

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• The Presidents and the National Parks

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