2018 Winning Essay The Hugh S. Sidey Scholarship
“The 150-year era of the great steel plow, central instrument of American abundance and strength, is ending,” wrote Hugh Sidey in 1...
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The Life and Presidency Herbert Hoover
The 2016 White House Christmas ornament honors the administration of the thirty-first president of the United States Herbert Hoover, who served...
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Italian State Dinners at the White House
January 14, 1964: State Dinner for Italian President Antonio Segni was hosted by President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Featured entertainment included Robert Merrill...
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2013 Winning Essay The Hugh S. Sidey Scholarship
"They are not as tall or articulate as you think they should be. And they're not super people, so that...
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National Student Art Competition 2021
Simmie Knox
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2016 Winning Essay The Hugh S. Sidey Scholarship
Journalists, especially those covering the White House, have arguably the most important job in a functioning Democracy: holding public officials...
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Singapore State Visits to the White House
April 10, 1973: Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew — Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and President Richard M. Nixon held discussions emphasizing continued cl...
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Top Dogs at the White House
Families taking up residence at the White House since the Theodore Roosevelt administration have encountered the public's insatiable appetite for...
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Roland Mesnier
Roland Mesnier has been pastry chef for five presidents. One of nine children born to a family in rural, post–Wo...
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The Red Room
Benjamin Henry Latrobe's 1803 drawing of the State Floor indicates that the Red Room served as "the President's Antechamber" for the...
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The Green Room
James Hoban, the original architect of the President's House, intended that the space now called the "Green Room" be used...
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The Entrance Hall
The Cross Hall and large Entrance Hall are at the center of the original plan by James Hoban for the...