Collection Presidents & Baseball
No sport is more closely tied to the American presidency than baseball. One of Washington’s first baseball fields was lo...
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The Plunger.
No sport is more closely tied to the American presidency than baseball. One of Washington’s first baseball fields was lo...
Presidents have found different ways to escape the pressures and politics of the position. For early leaders, it was a...
The White House tennis court, first built in 1902 behind the West wing, was moved to the west side of the...
Since the creation of the American presidency, there have been presidential vacations. Early chief executives such as George Washington, John...
Leaving the White House during the summer is an old tradition of the presidents. Those with farms, such as Dwight...
America's presidents have been trying to get away from it all for more than two hundred years and never quite...
Social dancing was especially enjoyed during the terms of Benjamin Harrison and William McKinley and its popularity within the White...
The primary Easter Monday entertainment at the White House has always involved egg rolling. Participants roll dyed, hard-boiled eggs across...
Throughout the history of the presidency, a president’s clothing choices have been influenced by a number of factors. Personal ba...
Music has been an essential part of life in the White House from the earliest days of our nation, not...
Prior to President and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to Panama in 1906, no American president had set foot outside the co...
By the summer of 1946, President Harry S. Truman needed a vacation. Catapulted into the presidency by the sudden death of F...