Collection Presidential Retreats
Presidents have found different ways to escape the pressures and politics of the position. For early leaders, it was a...
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President Truman stood on deck during the return trip up the Potomac River to Washington, D.C., on September 2, 1946.
Presidents have found different ways to escape the pressures and politics of the position. For early leaders, it was a...
No sport is more closely tied to the American presidency than baseball. One of Washington’s first baseball fields was lo...
Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, 100 miles from Washington, Camp Rapidan served President Herbert Hoover and First Lady...
Since the creation of the American presidency, there have been presidential vacations. Early chief executives such as George Washington, John...
On March 27, 1952, President and Mrs. Truman returned to a freshly renovated White House after living at Blair House since November 1948....
The first vacations of President Calvin Coolidge were not very different from those of past presidents. Many commanders in chief...
The White House Historical Association’s 2018 White House Christmas Ornament honors Harry S. Truman, the thirty-third president of the United St...
America's presidents have been trying to get away from it all for more than two hundred years and never quite...
Leaving the White House during the summer is an old tradition of the presidents. Those with farms, such as Dwight...
The first president to travel by airplane was actually a former president. On October 11, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt accompanied aviator Archibald Hoxsey...
Before U.S. Air Force One there was U.S. Train Car Number One, designed for the specifications of President...
Social dancing was especially enjoyed during the terms of Benjamin Harrison and William McKinley and its popularity within the White...