Collection The White House Social Secretary
For more than one hundred years, White House Social Secretaries have displayed a profound knowledge of protocol and society in...
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A lithograph depicting Booker T. Washington dining with President Theodore Roosevelt.
For more than one hundred years, White House Social Secretaries have displayed a profound knowledge of protocol and society in...
Biographies & Portraits
First Lady Lou Hoover's invitation to Jessie L. DePriest to a White House tea party in 1929 created a storm of...
From its construction in 1792, until the 1902 renovation that shaped the modern identity and functions of the interior of the White...
Assuming the presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in...
Jimmy Carter promised a government "as competent, as compassionate, as good" as the American people. His achievements were notable, but...
With the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, became the youngest president in the nation's history. He brought...
Like Theodore Roosevelt before him, Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. "No one but the...
Edith Kermit Carow knew Theodore Roosevelt from infancy; as a toddler she became a playmate of his younger sister Corinne....
When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, he became the first African American to hold the office. The framers of t...
President’s Park is approximately 80 acres of urban landscape surrounding the White House. A fence encloses the house, providing 18 acres of...
Twentieth-century historical forces and social movements left their marks on the working White House. In 1900, nearly 87,000 inhabitants (almost a third...