Collection White House in Bloom
Today's White House grounds are a site to behold. What started as 85 acres of land chosen by George Washington, was...
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Lady Bird Johnson examines President Johnson's address to the nation regarding his proposals for Vietnam peace talks and his decision not to seek reelection, March 31, 1968.
Today's White House grounds are a site to behold. What started as 85 acres of land chosen by George Washington, was...
Biographies & Portraits
A "Great Society" for the American people was the vision of Lyndon Johnson. As president, he obtained passage of one...
A shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the...
Through Ronald Reagan's eight years in office, the cold war came to an end, the country seemed to regain its...
Christened Claudia Alta Taylor when she was born in near Karnack, Texas, in 1912, she received her nickname as a small...
Artists often use studies or sketches to develop their final compositions, and this is especially true of portrait painters. Prominent...
In 1949, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt sat for her portrait in Douglas Chandor’s New York studio. Seventeen years later, The Wh...
When the White House gates open at 10:00 am on Saturday, April 13th, thousands of people will stream through for the...
Every spring, the National Cherry Blossom Festival commemorates the 1912 gift of 3,020 cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo, Japan,...
Not long after she became First Lady, Pat Nixon was asked what she planned to focus on in her new...
"I wanted to let future generations know the man for what he was, a metaphor of America at a crossroads,...