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In our own time thoughts about “the West” have been rather vividly colored by popular culture imagery depicting the rugged indi...
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Creator: Bruce Dale, National Geographic Society, March 1975.
President Ford gives a press conference on the fourth floor of the Old Executive Office Building.
In our own time thoughts about “the West” have been rather vividly colored by popular culture imagery depicting the rugged indi...
The James S. Brady Press Briefing Room has been the on-grounds quarters for the White House correspondents and news photographers...
On November 16, 1974, President Gerald Ford’s son Jack, a fan of rock n’ roll, met former Beatle George Harrison backstage afte...
Throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century, several major proposals were made to alleviate crowding at the White House...
President and Mrs. George Bush recognized music as a supreme American gesture, a vital symbol of American life as it...
So much about the new United States was new—a democracy in a world full of monarchies, an elected president in...
While neither President nor Mrs. Eisenhower was especially knowledgeable in European classical music, they recognized the value of the music...
In August 1814, British forces occupying the Chesapeake Bay began to sail up the Patuxent River in Maryland. Fearing an attack...
President Millard Fillmore and his family were particularly musical. Mrs. Fillmore, the former Abigail Powers, made certain the White House...
A recent magazine article described the garden of the White House, “known as the President’s Park,” as covering 82 acres and en...
Social dancing was especially enjoyed during the terms of Benjamin Harrison and William McKinley and its popularity within the White...
Construction on the President’s House began in 1792. The decision to place the capital on land ceded by two slave st...