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• Sports & Recreation

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• Presidential Valets

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• The Soldiers' Home: First Presidential Retreat

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• Hoover's Retreat: Rapidan Camp

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• An Introduction to "Away From the White House"

  America's presidents have been trying to get away from it all for more than two hundred years and never quite...

• The Presidents and the National Parks

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• Musical Heritage at the White House

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• Easter Egg Roll: Games, Old and New

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• Presidents and the Hey Day of Horse Racing in the Federal City

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