Podcast Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President
In 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn in for the first of his four terms as president of the United States....
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In October 1934, a young Lyndon Baines Johnson, working as an aide to Texas Congressman Richard M. Kleberg in Washington, D.C., sent this postcard of the Lincoln Memorial surrounded by cherry blossoms to his soon to be wife Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Taylor in Karnack, Texas.
In 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn in for the first of his four terms as president of the United States....
Mark K. Updegrove shares new historical perspectives on the Kennedy presidency from his recent book, Incomparable Grace: JFK in the...
Every year since 1981, the White House Historical Association has had the privilege of designing the Official White House Christmas Ornament....
On November 22, 1963, about two hours after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson took the...
The White House Grounds began as approximately 85 acres of land chosen by George Washington and was refined and cultivated by...
Since the first cherry blossom planting in 1912 by First Lady Helen Herron Taft, Washingtonians have celebrated the scenic beauty and...
Long before the emergence of the United States and Italy as modern nation states were influenced by classical writers, philosophers,...
While there has yet to be a female president, women have played an integral role in shaping the White House...
Spring is a special time in our nation’s capital, when cherry blossoms bloom and the White House garden comes al...
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