Collection The White House Social Secretary
For more than one hundred years, White House Social Secretaries have displayed a profound knowledge of protocol and society in...
West Wing waiting room
- Date of Work
- 1946
- Medium
- Photo
- Credit
- Harry S. Truman Library
West Wing waiting room
Working behind the scenes, many White House staffers are imbued with a “passion for anonymity.” They are frequently unidentified in historic photographs. An unidentified man at a desk in the West Wing waiting room in 1946.
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