Podcast Freemasons and the White House
Since the laying of the cornerstone in 1792, Freemasons have played an important role in the construction and the history of...
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President Ford with his chief of staff Dick Cheney, 1976.
Since the laying of the cornerstone in 1792, Freemasons have played an important role in the construction and the history of...
For more than two centuries, the White House has been the home of American presidents. A powerful symbol of the...
For more than one hundred years, White House Social Secretaries have demonstrated a profound knowledge of protocol and society in...
January 14, 1964: State Dinner for Italian President Antonio Segni was hosted by President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Featured entertainment included Robert Merrill...
President Andrew Jackson was a slaveholder who brought a large household of slave domestics with him from Tennessee to the...
The White House Historical Association and presidential libraries, historic homes, and museums have a shared goal of providing access to...
Ron Nessen has spent most of his adult life covering major news stories from all parts of the world. After...
Animals -- whether pampered household pets, working livestock, birds, squirrels, or strays -- have long been a major part of...
Families taking up residence at the White House since the Theodore Roosevelt administration have encountered the public's insatiable appetite for...
John Quincy Adams hired Antoine Michel Giusta as his valet after they met in Belgium in 1814. Giusta was a deserter...
"Largely through television," notes historian William Seale, the White House "is the best known house in the world, the instantly...
Thomas F. Pendel was a White House doorman from the Abraham Lincoln administration to the turn of the 20th century....