Collection Presidential Retreats
Presidents have found different ways to escape the pressures and politics of the position. For early leaders, it was a...
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Historian Lawrence Knutson talks about President George H.W. Bush's "perpetual motion" vacations.
Presidents have found different ways to escape the pressures and politics of the position. For early leaders, it was a...
No sport is more closely tied to the American presidency than baseball. One of Washington’s first baseball fields was lo...
Biographies & Portraits
Camp David has provided presidents and their families with a recreational retreat from the White House, as well as a...
Brooke Clement is director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum. Clement started her career with the National...
Barbara Franklin is the former secretary of commerce under President George H.W. Bush, the second woman to hold that...
Amy Zantzinger is currently head of Amy Zantzinger Interior Design, which was established in 1998. Mrs. Zantzinger’s business provides design se...
When I came to Iowa State, I had no idea what it meant to be a journalist. My idea of...
April 29, 1876 – President Ulysses S. Grant signed legislation protecting the public turf and grounds of the U.S. Capitol; egg rolling wa...
January 14, 1964: State Dinner for Italian President Antonio Segni was hosted by President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Featured entertainment included Robert Merrill...
“The 150-year era of the great steel plow, central instrument of American abundance and strength, is ending,” wrote Hugh Sidey in 1...
JAMES ARCHER ABBOTT is the Executive Director of the Lewes Historical Society in Lewes, Delaware. His publications include JANSEN, JANSEN...