Collection Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day"
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
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First Lady Patricia Nixon’s birthday party, 1972. On the occasion of First Lady Pat Nixon’s 60th birthday, White House staff members wished her a “Happy 39th” in the spirit of comedian Jack Benny’s longstanding joke that he perpetually remained 39 years old.
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
Biographies & Portraits
For more than two centuries, the White House has been the home of American presidents. A powerful symbol of the...
For more than one hundred years, White House Social Secretaries have displayed a profound knowledge of protocol and society in...
Born Thelma Catherine Ryan on March 16, 1912, in Ely, Nevada, "Pat" Nixon acquired her nickname within hours. Her father called her...
Early YearsBorn Thelma Catherine Ryan on March 16, 1912, in Ely, Nevada, “Pat” Nixon acquired her nickname from her father who called her...
When you join the White House staff, you enter a unique community full of surprising paradoxes. The men and women...
Frances Cleveland, the bright and beautiful young wife of President Grover Cleveland, was much in demand on the social scene...
To Alexander Woollcott, the White House was the “best theatrical boarding house in Washington.” To his hostess, First Lady Eleanor Roos...
Electric lighting was installed in the White House in 1891. Few people at the time had enough faith in electric lighting...
One who grows up in Washington sees evidence of the nation’s governance firsthand. The caravans of black cars, senators br...
When President and Mrs. Richard M. Nixon took up residence in 1969, the wear and tear of thousands of visitors and...