Collection The Johnson White House 1963 - 1969
On November 22, 1963, about two hours after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson took the...
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On November 22, 1963, about two hours after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson took the...
Presidents have found different ways to escape the pressures and politics of the position. For early leaders, it was a...
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Every year since 1981, the White House Historical Association has had the privilege of designing the Official White House Christmas Ornament....
President Andrew Jackson was a slaveholder who brought a large household of slave domestics with him from Tennessee to the...
Two of the youngest presidents to reside in the White House brought their families and a menagerie of pets along...
Animals -- whether pampered household pets, working livestock, birds, squirrels, or strays -- have long been a major part of...
In the early decades of the republic a president's wife, like other wives, seldom displayed her private life to the...
After the Civil War, the nation's capital became a magnet for foreign diplomats and people who had made fortunes in...
Thomas F. Pendel was a White House doorman from the Abraham Lincoln administration to the turn of the 20th century....
"Largely through television," notes historian William Seale, the White House "is the best known house in the world, the instantly...
American presidents throughout history have appreciated the utility and admired the grandeur of the horse. The visual image of the...