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A reporter takes notes while President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom speak to the press in the Oval Office, March 3, 2009.
Biographies & Portraits
A dinner at the White House has always had significance beyond the merely gastronomical. The elegance of the State Dining...
President Harry S. Truman was close to his friends and associates, had a grin for strangers, but could be less...
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
Every year since 1981, the White House Historical Association has had the privilege of designing the Official White House Christmas Ornament....
“Each of us also comes here tonight," Michelle Obama told the Democratic National Convention in 2008, "by our own improbable journey” and...
When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, he became the first African American to hold the office. The framers of t...
When Richard Nixon was elected in 1968, he declared that his goal was "to bring the American people together." The nation...
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...
Papal visits to the White House have been rare—with Pope Francis' recent visit, just three popes in history have vi...
In the summer of 1864, Kentuckian John Bullock called upon President Abraham Lincoln at the White House to make a personal...