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President Barack Obama looks down the fairway while golfing at Vineyard Golf Club near Lobsterville Beach during his vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Aug. 27, 2009.
Biographies & Portraits
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...
“Each of us also comes here tonight," Michelle Obama told the Democratic National Convention in 2008, "by our own improbable journey” and...
The centennial of President Washington's inauguration heightened the nation's interest in its heroic past, and in 1890 Caroline Scott Harrison lent h...
During the 1992 presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton observed, "Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are...
Bill Clinton could fairly claim that his presidency had been among the most successful in modern times. He presided over...
When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, he became the first African American to hold the office. The framers of t...
Born April 26, 1970, in Novo Mesto, Slovenia (then Yugoslavia), at the height of the Cold War, Melania Trump grew up under...
The James S. Brady Press Briefing Room has been the on-grounds quarters for the White House correspondents and news photographers...
The son of a farmer-doctor, Warren Gamaliel Harding was born in 1865 in Corsica (now Blooming Grove), Ohio. As a boy...
The White House tennis court, first built in 1902 behind the West wing, was moved to the west side of the...