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Betty Monkman Leads a Tour of the Green Room
- Photographer
- Eric Draper
- Date of Work
- January 21, 2001
- Type
- Photograph
- Credit
- Courtesy of George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum/NARA
Betty Monkman Leads a Tour of the Green Room
In this photograph, taken by Eric Draper on January 21, 2001, White House Curator Betty Monkman leads a tour in the Green Room of the White House. The tour was held the day after George W. Bush was sworn-in as the 43rd President of the United States. Betty Monkman joined the White House Office of the Curator in 1967, and served there until her retirement in 2002. She became the sixth White House Curator upon the retirement of Rex Scouten in 1997. A regular contributor to the White House Historical Association's award-winning journal White House History Quarterly, Betty Monkman is also the author of the White House Historical Association publications The White House: Its Historic Furnishings and First Families, and The Living White House.