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A State Dinner honoring a visiting head of government or reigning monarch is one of the grandest and most glamorous...
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James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in 2009.
This photograph of the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, more commonly known as the Press Room, was taken in 2009 during the Barack Obama administration. Richard M. Nixon established the room in 1970 to meet the needs of the growing press corps that was assembling in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next door. Prior to 1970, Franklin D. Roosevelt had an indoor pool installed in this West Wing room. The pool, though empty, still exists underneath the new Press Room floor.
A State Dinner honoring a visiting head of government or reigning monarch is one of the grandest and most glamorous...
In 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn in for the first of his four terms as president of the United States....
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
Presidents have found different ways to escape the pressures and politics of the position. For early leaders, it was a...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to office at the height of the Great Depression. He ushered in an environment...
“Backstage at a White House Wedding: Behind the Main Event.” Life Magazine, June 18, 1971: 40-49. Google Books. “Beene Speaks Out on that W...
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The White House Collection and the Atlantic World Jennifer L. Anderson, Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America (Cambridge,...
Kate Clarke Lemay is a historian at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. She is a Fulbright Scholar;...
Matthew R. Costello is chief education officer for the White House Historical Association where he oversees education programs, historical research,...
The year 2020 has embodied a timeline of uncertainty and tension across not only the United States, but the world as...
The White House Historical Association has established an endowed position, the Marlyne Sexton Chair in White House History, in honor...