Decorated Entrance Hall and Grand Staircase, Nixon Administration

This photograph of the Entrance Hall and Grand Staircase decorated for the holiday season was taken on December 14, 1970, during the Richard M. Nixon administration. For her second Christmas as first lady, Pat Nixon adorned the Executive Mansion once again with wreaths, garlands, and red bows. Other returning decorations included 12 roughly eight-foot-tall pedestal scones topped with red candles, and velvet-and-satin state flower ornaments on the official White House Christmas Tree. Eastman Johnson's official 1891 portrait of President Grover Cleveland can be seen hanging under a wreath on the right side of this photograph.