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J.B. West, chief usher from 1957 to 1968, poses in the West Sitting Hall with Jacqueline Kennedy and John Kennedy Jr. prior to their departure from the White House following the assassination of President Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy signed the photograph for West at Christmas 1963.
The first White House guidebook was published in 1962 as a collaboration between First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, the new White House...
It is hard to imagine that it was something as casual as a lunch conversation between a newly elected president...
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s advocacy for the arts endures as a vital part of th...
The White House Historical Association has been preserving and sharing White House history since its founding by First Lady Jacqueline...
Biographies & Portraits
Biographies & Portraits
For more than one hundred years, White House Social Secretaries have demonstrated a profound knowledge of protocol and society in...
For more than two centuries, the White House has been the home of American presidents. A powerful symbol of the...
At age 43, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the youngest person ever elected to the presidency. Before his vibrant presidency was cut...
Long before the emergence of the United States and Italy as nations, close connections between our two peoples influenced political...
After President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy wanted her husband to be remembered through a national cu...
In 1963, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy helped arrange one of the most daring art exhibits in history, charming the French Government...