Collection State Dinners
A State Dinner honoring a visiting head of government or reigning monarch is one of the grandest and most glamorous...
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When the camera-shy pilot Charles Lindbergh tried to exit the White House after a visit with President Franklin Roosevelt in 1939, he found all the doors covered by news cameramen. He is seen here running the photographer’s gauntlet as he emerged from a side door of the West Wing. The location of the Press Room at the time allowed reporters easy access to the president’s visitors.
Lindbergh stymied by photographers. Washington, D.C., April 20. Camera-shy Col. Charles A. Lindbergh leaving the White House after a conference with President Roosevelt today, found all exits well 'covered' by news cameramen. Here we see the famous flyer running the photographer's gauntlet as he emerged from a side door of the Executive Mansion
A State Dinner honoring a visiting head of government or reigning monarch is one of the grandest and most glamorous...
In 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn in for the first of his four terms as president of the United States....
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to office at the height of the Great Depression. He ushered in an environment...
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
A dinner at the White House has always had significance beyond the gastronomical delights. The elegance of the State Dining...
Presidents have found different ways to escape the pressures and politics of the position. For early leaders, it was a...
The White House Collection and the Atlantic World Jennifer L. Anderson, Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America (Cambridge,...
Kate Clarke Lemay is a historian at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. She is a Fulbright Scholar;...
“Backstage at a White House Wedding: Behind the Main Event.” Life Magazine, June 18, 1971: 40-49. Google Books. “Beene Speaks Out on that W...
Matthew R. Costello is chief education officer for the White House Historical Association where he oversees education programs, historical research,...
Kathryn Cramer Brownell
Born in Leominster, Massachusetts in 1953, Mr. Smith graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1975 with a degree in government....