Collection The White House Social Secretary
For more than one hundred years, White House Social Secretaries have displayed a profound knowledge of protocol and society in...
President Ford with Dick Cheney
- Date of Work
- 1976
- Medium
- Photo
- Credit
- Library of Congress
President Ford with Dick Cheney
President Ford with his chief of staff Dick Cheney, 1976.
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