Featured The Life and Presidency of Harry S. Truman
The White House Historical Association’s 2018 White House Christmas Ornament honors Harry S. Truman, the thirty-third president of the United St...
President Nixon at the Kennedy Center
President Nixon at the Kennedy Center
President Nixon attended the opening of the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in September 1971. The Presidential Seal can be seen here on the presidential box in which he is seated with his wife Pat and the former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower. The author recalls her experience enjoying a performance in this “ultimate Kennedy Center seating” as an adventure.
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