The President, the Press, and Proximity
The James S. Brady Press Briefing Room has been the on-grounds quarters for the White House correspondents and news photographers...
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Hugh Sidey is seen here in 1998 in his office at the Time magazine, where he was White House correspondent and bureau chief. The Hugh S. Sidey Scholarship in Print Journalism was established in 2006 at Sidey's alma mater, Iowa State University, by the White House Historical Association and David M. Rubenstein to support aspiring print journalists.
The James S. Brady Press Briefing Room has been the on-grounds quarters for the White House correspondents and news photographers...
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Give him a barrel of hard cider and settle a pension of two thousand a year on him, and my...
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In the thick of party conflict in 1800, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a private letter, "I have sworn upon the altar...
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At age 22, Martha Wayles Skelton was already a widow, an heiress, and a mother whose firstborn son would die in...
Bill Clinton could fairly claim that his presidency had been among the most successful in modern times. He presided over...
At the 1896 Republican Convention, in time of depression, the wealthy Cleveland businessman Marcus Alonzo Hanna ensured the nomination of his...
With the assassination of Lincoln, the presidency fell upon an old-fashioned southern Democrat of pronounced states' rights views. Although an...