Collection State Dinners
A State Dinner honoring a visiting head of government or reigning monarch is one of the grandest and most glamorous...
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While the presidency is often in the eye of the public, those who ensure operations at the White House run smoothly on a day-to-day basis often carry out their work behind the scenes. Furthermore, some of the president's most intimate relationships play out behind the walls of the Executive Mansion. In this collection, pull back the curtain on some of the lesser known roles and stories in White House history.
A History of the Secret Service
George Cortelyou and the Early 20th-Century White House
A State Dinner honoring a visiting head of government or reigning monarch is one of the grandest and most glamorous...
For more than one hundred years, White House Social Secretaries have demonstrated a profound knowledge of protocol and society in...
The White House Military Social Aides have played an important role in the life of the White House since the...
Military Social Aides perform a vital role for White House events, assisting the Social Secretary and representing the President and...
How do you plan for a State Dinner with hundreds of guests, a private meal with a King and Queen...
NUMBERS 1 THROUGH 6 (COLLECTION I) WHITE HOUSE HISTORY • NUMBER 1 1 — Foreword by Melvin M. Payne 5 — President Kennedy’s Rose Garden by Rachel Lambert...
Read Digital Version Foreword, William SealeSocial Secretary "The Best Job in the White House," Mary Jo BinkerReflections: Making White House...
Since joining the White House Historical Association in 2014, Stewart McLaurin has had been published a number of times. Topics range...
1862-1863: Mary Todd Lincoln, grieving over her son Willies death in February, began to participate in spirit circles or seances...
The whole family [of President Theodore Roosevelt] were fiends when it came to reading. No newspapers. Never a moment was...
General White House Bibliography:Aikman, Lonnelle. The Living White House. Washington, D.C.: The White House Historical Association, 1996. Cunliffe, Marcus....
On February 10, 1968, nineteen-year-old American figure skater Peggy Fleming stepped out onto the ice at the Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France....