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First Lady Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan board Marine One en route to the Williamsburg Economic Summit in 1983.
Biographies & Portraits
Biographies & Portraits
When Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office on August 9, 1974, he declared, "I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances. . . ....
Jimmy Carter promised a government "as competent, as compassionate, as good" as the American people. His achievements were notable, but...
"My life really began when I married my husband," says Nancy Reagan, who happily left an acting career for a...
Through Ronald Reagan's eight years in office, the cold war came to an end, the country seemed to regain its...
George H.W. Bush brought to the White House a wish for Americans to be “points of light.” He created Poin...
“Geography has made us neighbors,” President John F. Kennedy told the Canadian Parliament in May 1961, “History has made us friends. Econom...
Though presidential personalities and policies can generate deep chasms during their term of service, the death of a president evokes...
When it was announced on December 15, 1978 that Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping and his wife, Madame Zhuo Lin, would be making...
Martha WashingtonAbigail AdamsMartha JeffersonDolley MadisonElizabeth MonroeLouisa AdamsRachel Jackson / Emily DonelsonHannah Van Buren / Angelica Van BurenAnna Harrison / Jane HarrisonLetitia Tyler / Julia...
GEORGE WASHINGTON | 1789-1797 JOHN ADAMS | 1797-1801 THOMAS JEFFERSON | 1801-1809 JAMES MADISON | 1809-1817 JAMES MONROE | 1817-1825 JOHN QUINCY ADAMS | 1825-1829 ANDREW...