As the gallery of images in the previous article showing the beds and bedrooms of the U.S. Presidents suggests, they usually had a lot of room to share it. Most did so with their wives. Still, there was nothing to… Read More ›
Presidential Homes
Sleeping with the President: A Peek at All Their Private Bedrooms & Beds
It’s the most private space in the home of us all, the bedroom. And yet, like everything else, when it comes to the Presidents of the United States, nothing is sacred – not even a peek inside their bedrooms and… Read More ›
Inside Reagan’s 1950s General Electric “Home of the Future”
Despite the fact that he’d served two full terms as governor of California, the nation’s most populous and prosperous state, when Ronald Reagan was running for President in 1980 he was most frequently dismissed by the perception that he… Read More ›
The House that Jackie Built: Home Movie Inside the Kennedy Weekend Home
Later in life she mused that she might have studied architecture, so interested was she in the design and flowing layout of rooms as the primary blueprint for creating the interior furnishings of a beautiful home. Jackie Kennedy came close… Read More ›
Bess Truman Rocks The Back Porch & Her Only Recorded Interview
Labor Day may have ended the ceremonial end of summer but its not official until September 21 and in certain parts of the country, the ninth month can be more beastly muggy than the eighth one. Few places seem more… Read More ›
A Day With No President & Lincoln’s Lost Coat: Zach Taylor’s 1849 Sunday Inauguration, Part 3
When Warren G. Harding was a candidate for the highest office in the land, his manager Harry Daugherty enthused that Harding might win simply because “he sure looks like a President!” Nobody ever said that about Zachary Taylor. In fact,… Read More ›
Christmas at the White House: First Families at Home for the Holiday, Part 4
This is the fourth and final article in the series Christmas at the White House. You can find the previous three at the links at the end of this article. If contemporary observers expect a “theme” each succeeding year of… Read More ›
Christmas at the White House: First Families & Holiday Charities, Part 3
Living in the White House affords even Presidential families who neither earned nor inherited great wealth a privileged lifestyle and while many have privately and publicly supported various charitable organizations or risen to the occasion in the time of a… Read More ›
Christmas at the White House: Trees, Gingerbread Houses, Mennorahs, Celebrity Santas & Other Innovations, Part 2
This is the second segment in a four-part article on Christmas at the White House. To read about The Presidents Presents, Getting & Giving Gifts, go to: https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/12/05/christmas-at-the-white-house-the-presidents-presents-shopping-giving-getting-gifts-part-1-of-4/ Whether gathering to mark Christmas and Hanukkah as holy days or just… Read More ›
Christmas at the White House: The President’s Presents, Shopping, Giving & Getting Gifts, Part 1 of 4
No matter how much we may imagine them now as marbleized icons of history, even Presidents and First Ladies enjoy searching out the ideal gifts to give loved ones at the holiday season and sometime delight with an equal degree… Read More ›
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