Presidents and College Football
Nearly 150 years after its beginnings college football season is in full swing. The sport has attracted countless players and even...
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President and Mrs. Obama pose for a portrait in front of the official White House Christmas tree in the Blue Room. December 6, 2009.
Nearly 150 years after its beginnings college football season is in full swing. The sport has attracted countless players and even...
President Richard M. Nixon was the first sitting president to attend the Kentucky Derby on May 3, 1969. In his party that...
Just how does the president celebrate Presidents’ Day? Throughout the more than 200-year history of the White House, presidents themselves ha...
On April 23, 1932, Shakespeare-lovers from around the country flocked to Washington, D.C., to attend the dedication of the handsome new...
Historian William Seale has described presidential protection as a learning process, with presidents and their families and the Secret Service...
For the politicians, civil servants, and accompanying citizenry of the new federal government—freshly arrived in 1800 from comfortable, sophisticated Philadelphia—the...
George Bush brought to the White House a wish to make the United States "a kinder and gentler nation." Coming...
Assuming the presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in...
"I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else, there is certain bounds set for me which...
In looks and tragic destiny, Jane Means Appleton resembled the heroine of a Victorian novel. The gentle dignity of her...
Rarely has a first lady been greeted by the American people and the press with the approbation and warmth accorded...
When Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office on August 9, 1974, he declared, "I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances. . . ....