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2023 Presidential Sites Summit Schedule
Monday, September 25 12:00pm: Registration at the Mayflower Hotel 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM: White House Reception Please join us for a White House Reception hosted by Dr. Biden. Introduction: John F.W. Rogers, Chairman, White House Historical Association Board of DirectorsRemarks: Dr. Jill Biden, First Lady of the United States Shuttles will depart the Mayflower Hotel at 2:30 pm. Following the reception, the shuttles wi
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Behind the Scenes
Foreword: Behind the Scenes by Marcia AndersonThe Executive Residence Portraits Project Remembered: An Interview with White House Photographer Tina Hager by Tina Hager & Marcia AndersonWhite House Curatorial Storage: An Inside View by Donna Hayashi SmithIrineo Esperancilla, U.S. Navy Steward to Four Presidents: Faithful Service Remembered by Melinda Dart with Marcia AndersonEnvisioning the East Room of Abraham Lincoln’s Fu
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Brooke Clement
Brooke Clement is director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum. Clement started her career with the National Archives as an archives technician at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She then held archival and supervisory positions with the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum,
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Barbara Franklin
Barbara Franklin is the former secretary of commerce under President George H.W. Bush, the second woman to hold that position. TIME magazine named her one of the “50 Women who Made American Political History.” She is the president of Barbara Franklin Enterprises, a consulting firm in Washington, D.C. In 1971, Secretary Franklin led the government effort to recruit women for high
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John F. W. Rogers
John F. W. Rogers is the White House Historical Association chairman of the board. Mr. Rogers is currently an executive vice president of Goldman Sachs. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, John Rogers was a senior fellow at the Baker Institute at Rice University. Mr. Rogers served many years in the U.S. government as an under secretary of state, assistant
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Amy Zantzinger
Amy Zantzinger is currently head of Amy Zantzinger Interior Design, which was established in 1998. Mrs. Zantzinger’s business provides design services for residential and commercial clients throughout the United States. Her interior design business was put on hold for two years, when in February 2007, President George W. Bush appointed her as special assistant to the president and White House social se
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On the Move
Foreword: On the Move by Marcia Mallet AndersonMoving On: The President’s Household Sets Sail for the City of Washington by Alan CappsThe Marquis de Lafayette’s Return to the United States, 1824–1825 by Richard F. GrimmettJoanna Rucker’s Extended Stay in the Polk White House and the Nation’s Capital: A First Lady’s Niece Records Her Experience in Nineteenth-Century Washington,
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Easter Egg Roll: Easter and the Cleveland East Room
In the beginning, children came into the White House with baskets of brightly dyed hard-boiled eggs. On Easter Monday, 1885, young egg rollers marched into the East Room, hoping for a personal audience with President Grover Cleveland. When he came down from his office to greet them, he was charmed. These visitors ruined the East Room carpet, which, as the Washington
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Easter Egg Roll: Fanfare and Keepsakes
Over the years, White House egg roll events have been made memorable by new attractions. In 1993, the Clintons scaled back the fanfare so that children would remember the day for its egg rolling games. A generation earlier, First Lady Pat Nixon gave out certificates of participation as a souvenir to eggrollers. First Ladies Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter distributed plastic
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Richard Norton Smith
Born in Leominster, Massachusetts in 1953, Mr. Smith graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1975 with a degree in government. Following graduation he worked as a White House intern and as a free lance writer for The Washington Post. After being employed as a speech writer for Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke, he went to work for Senator Bob Dole, with
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Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty, III
Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty, III is Chairman of McLarty Associates. He co-founded McLarty Associates in 1998 following a distinguished record of business leadership and public service, including various roles advising three US Presidents: Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter. Mr. McLarty is also Chairman of the McLarty Companies, a fourth-generation family transportation business. As President Clinton’s White House
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Mark K. Updegrove
Mark K. Updegrove is the president and CEO of the LBJ Foundation and serves as Presidential Historian for ABC News. From 2009 to 2017, he was the director of the LBJ Presidential Library where he hosted the Civil Rights Summit in 2014, which included Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter. Updegrove is the author of four books on