The new book, The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by former Bloomberg News reporter Kate Brower, is making waves. The media dustup is not just over the book’s personal revelations about recent Presidents and First Ladies,… Read More ›
“Old Dogs” and “Jackie Kennedy” are the story topics, according to this website statistics, which draw the most readers but one which rises dramatically at this time of year is a previous article with ten favorite recipes of Presidents and… Read More ›
The Madisons went to bed early. The Nixons watched the annual T.V. special hosted by band leader Guy Lombardo. The LBJs had friends blowing plastic horns at their ranch. The Eisenhowers hosted a spiffy champagne party in their Augusta cottage…. Read More ›
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 ›
Even if it took a century and a half, there were hopes to make the White House green from the start. Just two years after George Washington took his oath of office as the nation’s first chief executive, there was… Read More ›
The second President liked the first President well enough, but he wasn’t all gaga about having The Great One’s birthday celebrated with dance parties, fireworks and parades. In fact, if any one President would surely take fiendish pleasure in knowing… Read More ›
The Chicago Tribune reports that two weeks from this coming Saturday, the White House will be the scene of a birthday party for First Lady Michelle Obama, who will turn 50 years old the day before, having been born… Read More ›
Two weeks to the day that her husband was assassinated, presidential widow Jacqueline Kennedy moved out of the White House. It was December 6, 1963. This article has been converted into a pay-per-view ePublication, and is available here for reading and… Read More ›
She held no Cabinet meeting, issued no orders and signed no legislation. Yet in a brief interim of several hours on the afternoon of Monday, November 25, 1963, with her late husband the President having just been buried and his… Read More ›
The absence of their mother during the shocking aftermath of their father’s murder had led to several hours of uncertainty about who should first break the news to Caroline Kennedy and John Kennedy, Jr. and how it should be explained…. Read More ›
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