Collection The Presidents
Biographies & Portraits
WHCA with President Wilson
- Credit
- White House Correspondents Association with President Wilson, Kansas City Sun, May 16, 1914.
WHCA with President Wilson
White House Correspondents Association with President Wilson, Kansas City Sun, May 16, 1914.
You Might Also Like
-
-
Bio Warren G. Harding
Before his nomination, Warren G. Harding declared, "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not...
-
Bio William Howard Taft
Distinguished jurist, effective administrator, but poor politician, William Howard Taft spent four uncomfortable years in the White House. Large, jovial,...
-
Bio Ellen Wilson
"I am naturally the most unambitious of women and life in the White House has no attractions for me," Ellen...
-
Bio Woodrow Wilson
Like Theodore Roosevelt before him, Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. "No one but the...
-
Bio Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter promised a government "as competent, as compassionate, as good" as the American people. His achievements were notable, but...
-
"A Journey into Nowhere"
By the summer of 1946, President Harry S. Truman needed a vacation. Catapulted into the presidency by the sudden death of F...
-
April 6, 1917
At eight o’clock on the morning of April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson and his wife Edith “threw responsibilities to the wind...
-
The Press at the White House: 1980-1992
Ronald Reagan preferred to present himself and his policies in venues other than a formal presidential press conference. He held...
-
The Press at the White House: 1963-1980
Lyndon B. Johnson changed the nature of press conferences by including impromptu sessions where reporters might ask a few questions...
-
The Press at the White House: 1952-1963
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Press Secretary James C. Hagerty permitted radio, television and newspaper equipment to record coverage of news co...
-
The Press at the White House: 1941-1952
In 1945, Harry S. Truman proposed a major West Wing expansion that would add a studio and auditorium for press briefings....
