Collection The Kennedys and the Arts
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s advocacy for the arts endures as a vital part of their...
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President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, along with other guests, speak with cellist Pablo Casals, who performed in the White House East Room on November 13, 1961.
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s advocacy for the arts endures as a vital part of their...
Presidents have found different ways to escape the pressures and politics of the position. For early leaders, it was a...
On July 11, 1798, President John Adams approved legislation that officially brought "The President's Own" United States Marine Band into being, making...
Biographies & Portraits
Music is often called the universal language. It has been known to break down barriers and shape historic events in...
It's hard to imagine that it was something as casual as a lunch conversation between a newly elected president and...
Biographies & Portraits
It was President Thomas Jefferson who first established the traditions of a Fourth of July celebration at the White House....
"My life really began when I married my husband," says Nancy Reagan, who happily left an acting career for a...
When Richard Nixon was elected in 1968, he declared that his goal was "to bring the American people together." The nation...
The inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961 brought to the White House and to the heart of the nation a...
On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot to death...