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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The presidential yacht USS Sylph, c. 1910-1915.
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...
The centennial of President Washington's inauguration heightened the nation's interest in its heroic past, and in 1890 Caroline Scott Harrison lent h...
Born April 26, 1970, in Novo Mesto, Slovenia (then Yugoslavia), at the height of the Cold War, Melania Trump grew up under...
Since the creation of the American presidency, there have been presidential vacations. Early chief executives such as George Washington, John...
By the summer of 1946, President Harry S. Truman needed a vacation. Catapulted into the presidency by the sudden death of F...
The national parks preceded the National Park Service, but the first great natural park was a state park. California’s Yo...
Mobility is essential to the presidency. The necessity of reaching the far-flung corners of the U.S.A. seems a...
President Taft, a frequent theater goer, was seated in his box at the National Theatre with his aide Archibald Butt,...
Music has been an essential part of life in the White House from the earliest days of our nation, not...
Two leading ladies appeared at Washington’s National Theatre on the evening of July 2, 1886. On stage was Nellie McCartee, the st...
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., has often been referred to as “The Nation’s Attic” for its vast holdin...