Collection An Artist Visits the White House Past
From its construction in 1792, until the 1902 renovation that shaped the modern identity and functions of the interior of the White...
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Which president was assigned the first full-time Secret Service detail?
During the Theodore Roosevelt administration, the Secret Service assumed full-time responsibility for protecting the President. President Roosevelt was guarded by at least two Secret Service men. President Roosevelt wrote Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in 1906: “The secret service men are a very small but very necessary thorn in the flesh.”
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Collection The Presidents
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Bio Barack Obama
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Bio Edith Roosevelt
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Bio Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Bio Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter promised a government "as competent, as compassionate, as good" as the American people. His achievements were notable, but...
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Bio Theodore Roosevelt
With the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, became the youngest president in the nation's history. He brought...
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Bio Woodrow Wilson
Like Theodore Roosevelt before him, Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. "No one but the...
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Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day," 12/12/1938
WASHINGTON, Sunday—I must go back to tell you something of what has been going on the last few days, fo...
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Taking the Oath of Office
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The American Presidents and Shakespeare
On April 23, 1932, Shakespeare-lovers from around the country flocked to Washington, D.C., to attend the dedication of the handsome new...
