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Exploring the American Presidency through 50 Historic Treasures

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48 Official White House Portraits S. 162-164

„… throughout the White House.The most famous official portraits in the White House Historical Associa-tion …” „… Official White House Portraits48An official White House portrait of each president and first lady …” „… has been part of the White House Historical Association’s collection since 1965, when the organization …”

Notes S. 173-200

„… , 2021, https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white -house/presidents/james-k-polk/.6. “Attack of the …” „… Killer White House—Did the White House Itself Lead to the Death of Several 19th Century Presidents …” „… , https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white -house/presidents/zachary-taylor/.3. Object Record 1951.33, Kentucky Historical Society, accessed …”

47 Presidential Seal S. 156-161

„… swapped out by the housekeeping staff at the White House in the dead of night after a declaration of war …” „… limousine. It is used on all official White House correspondence. But it has not always appeared as it does …” „… . Snopes.com addressed this urban legend, quoting White House Curator Bill Allman:There is just one Seal of the …”

28 Warren G. Harding,1921–1923: Skeleton Key S. 94-96

„… closer to his heart than the office he occupied in the White House.W A R R E N G . H A R D I N G , 1 9 …” „… White House, and his many years as a journalist informed his work as chief executive. “Warren Harding …” „… key is one of my favorite objects in the house. That key unlocked the front door of the Marion Star …”

31 Franklin D. Roosevelt,1933–1945: Fireside Chat Microphone S. 104-109

„… the energy crisis, wearing a casual sweater and sitting in an easy chair near one of the White House …” „… households owned a radio, which made it the ideal way to reach the most people at once.Franklin D. Roosevelt …”

46 Resolute Desk S. 153-155

„… furniture and decorative arts from the White House collection. Every president since Hayes, with the …” „… 1962, the desk was made famous when the White House re-leased an image of John F. Kennedy Jr …” „… and television broadcasts.When the Kennedys arrived in the White House, Jackie Kennedy was ap-palled …”

30 Herbert Hoover, 1929–1933: Humidor S. 100-103

„… , Hoover met with White House physician Dr. Joel T. Boone for a physical. Although the president was in …” „… of medicine ball, volleyball, and tennis. In his article “Hoover Ball and Wellness in the White House …” „… the south lawn of the White House. On March 25, 1929, the News-Journal in Mansfield wrote, “Harding …”

21 Chester Arthur, 1881–1885: Tiffany Screen S. 70-72

„… efforts to renovate the White House.”1 His personality was well-suited to the task:Always known as a man …” „… . Disgusted with the shabby look of the White House, he hired Louis Comfort Tiffany, the most fashionable …” „… the differences between himself and his predecessor, James A. Garfield, by “making the White House …”

36 Richard Nixon, 1969–1974: Easy Chair S. 122-125

„… break-in and the infamous “tapes” he often secretly recorded of White House conversa-tions, obscuring his …” „… finally won the White House in 1968.Nixon was an intellectual, but he was also socially awkward and often …” „… the White House, has come to symbolize Richard Nixon’s intellect.RICHARD NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY …”

37 Gerald Ford, 1974–1977: Statuette of Elephant and Donkey S. 126-127

„… Gerald Ford, 1974–1977: Statuette of Elephant and Donkey37Gerald Ford’s path to the White House …” „… Prior to his peculiar climb to the White House, Ford had spent 25 years as a congressman from Michigan …” „… brief time in the White House was largely undistinguished. “His record during that time was decidedly …”

27 Woodrow Wilson, 1913–1921: 1919 Pierce-Arrow S. 91-93

„… from the Paris Peace Conference. “It quickly became his preferred car in the White House fleet,” said …” „… York, and leased to the government for use at the White House in June 1919. This model cost $9,250 and …” „… took a train to Washington, D.C., where the Pierce-Arrow picked him up and drove him to the White House …”

42 George W. Bush, 2001–2009: Bullhorn S. 140-143

„… School in Sarasota, Florida, White House chief of staff Andrew Card whispers into Bush’s ear, “A second …” „… presi-dent. Air Force One is a flying White House. It has awesome features: secure phone lines, a hospital …” „… returning to the White House. Air Force One landed at Andrews Air Force Base around 7:00 p.m., where Marine …”

Preface

„… –: COVID Vaccine Vial 15046 Resolute Desk 15347 Presidential Seal 15648 Official White House Portraits …” „… Rokus, Office of the Senate Curator; Alexandra Lane, White House Historical Association, and Robert J …” „… White House Historical Association begins collecting presidential portraits, page 163●● 1969–1974Richard …”

About the Author S. 207-208

„… published in the Public Historian, the journal of the National Council for Public History; White House …” „… History, the journal of the White House Historical Association; the Repository; the Boston Globe; Aviation …”

33 Dwight D. Eisenhower,1953–1961: Globe S. 113-115

„… won the elec-tion of 1952. This globe was used in many photo ops at the White House, including when …” „… contemporaries for delegating too much of his responsibilities to other White House workers. He was frequently …”

Index S. 201-206

„… , 126–27, 140–42, 144, 152–56, 158–60, 162–64, 167White House Historical Association (WHHA), 155, 162–64 …” „… , Herbert, 100–103, 104, 106, 148House of Representatives, 22, 35–36, 59, 165Idaho, 76–78Illinois, 30, 57 …” „… , 97, 106, 127, 141, 165Watergate, 122, 126Webster, Daniel, 44Whig Party, 29, 34, 40, 42, 45, 47White …”

43 Barack Obama, 2009–2017: Pen Used to Sign the Affordable Care Act S. 144-146

„… floor for a vote in 1994, and the issue was set aside until the next Democrat occupied the White House.1 …” „… to be at its highest and the Democrats enjoyed strong majorities in both houses of Congress.”2 …” „… C H A P T E R 4 3By the end of 2009, both houses of Congress had passed their own versions of …”

6 John Quincy Adams,1825–1829: Personal Library S. 20-22

„… career representing Massachusetts than he had in the White House. He was among the most ardent …” „… for the House of Representatives in 1830. He won the election and enjoyed a much more successful …” „… constitutional law would have proven quite valuable.In 1848 John Quincy had a severe stroke on the House floor …”

49 Senate Ballot Box S. 165-168

„… should be sworn in on Saturday, March 3, in a private ceremony in the White House. The public ceremony …” „… the Constitutional Convention. According to the United States House of Representatives, “Various …” „… state’s balloting are brought from the Senate to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber for …”

17 Andrew Johnson, 1865–1869: Impeachment Note S. 58-60

„… , as defined in the Thirteenth Amendment, “black codes” allowed white people to create a system that …” „… introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. Three days later Andrew Johnson became the first president …” „… 7the House voted 128–47 to adopt the resolution.”5 He was charged with 11 ar-ticles of impeachment …”

9 William Henry Harrison,1841: Flag Remnant S. 31-34

„… weather, recent scholarship suggests a different cause: enteric fever. The White House water supply was …” „… was a liar.”2 After this encounter, raids on white settlements increased, and Harrison convinced …”

12 Zachary Taylor, 1849–1850: Chair S. 40-42

„… has been linked to his death, it is likely that Taylor was yet another victim of the White House’s …”

15 James Buchanan, 1857–1861: Law Books S. 49-52

„… government to begin operations. Buchanan seemed eager to get out of the White House before the real disasters …” „… ” and served the House Judiciary Committee.6 In 1833, he became a senator. Personally, he did not …”

18 Ulysses S. Grant, 1869–1877: Inkwell S. 61-62

„… White House, “where he frequently entertained the cartoonist Thomas Nast, who had been devoted to Grant …”

32 Harry S. Truman, 1945–1953: “The Buck Stops Here”Desk Sign S. 110-112

„… forty years, had begun.4The sign “The Buck Stops Here” that was on President Truman’s desk in his White …” „… House office was made in the Federal Reformatory at El Reno, Oklahoma. Fred A. Can-fil, then United …”

26 William Howard Taft,1909–1913: Bible S. 88-90

„… it had not been political:After he was installed in the White House many of his most loyal friends …”

45 Joe Biden, 2021– :COVID Vaccine Vial S. 150-152

„… open and safe, and protecting our economy from lockdowns and damage.”7 Outlined on the White House …”

11 James K. Polk, 1845–1849: Table S. 37-39

„… overwork. He was also exposed to the same kinds of bacteria in the White House water supply that likely …”

8 Martin Van Buren,1837–1841: Desk S. 27-30

„… returned to Lindenwald to regroup and immediately began planning his triumphant return to the White House …”

24 William McKinley, 1897–1901: McKinley National Memorial Collection Bank S. 80-84

„… protection, Director Wilkie immediately stationed two agents at the White House full-time to protect …”

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Preface

„… HouseJonathan W. WhiteROWMAN & LITTLEFIELDLanham • Boulder • New York • LondonPublished by Rowman …” „… A HOUSE BUILT BY SLAVESA HOUSE BUILT BY SLAVESAfrican American Visitors to the Lincoln White …” „… Cataloging-in-Publication DataNames: White, Jonathan W., 1979- author. Title: A house built by slaves : African American …”

1. “A CONTINUAL TORMENT TO ME” S. 1-20

„… capi-tal would pass by a slave market on their way between the White House and the Capitol. And at the …” „… all white and male.After reading the bill on the floor of the House on January 10, Lincoln de-clared …” „… Lincoln rode between the White House and the Capitol for the inau-gural ceremonies, a black man drove the …”

3. “A SPECTACLE, AS HUMILIATING AS IT WAS EXTRAORDINARY” S. 37-46

„… au-dience at the White House, “What I did, I did after very full deliberation, and under a very heavy and …” „… Episcopal Church on August 14 and selected a group of men to visit the White House. The five men chosen were …” „… in the White House. Other Presidents have bought and sold him, and driven him from the territories …”

8. “TO KEEP THE JEWEL OF LIBERTY WITHIN THE FAMILY OF FREEDOM” S. 89-0

„… , Roudanez, an engineer, and Bertonneau, a wine merchant, approached the White House to present their …” „… White House on March 12 to present their new petition to the president. (Over the past few decades many …” „… delegation approached the White House they were directed to enter the building through the front door. This …”

6. “I FELT BIG THERE” S. 65-70

„… at the White House—and heard about how kindly Lincoln treated him—it no doubt inspired some of them …” „… man.”Douglass approached the White House with Sen. Samuel C. Pomeroy of Kansas. Once inside, he found himself …” „… received a black man at the White House.” Douglass then said that “he received me . . . just as you have …”

INTERLUDE 4. City Point S. 129-130

„… Confederate slaveholding republic—or with a Northern Democrat in the White House.Unfortunately, Lincoln’s …” „… regiments; but they have proved their efficiency, and I am glad they have kept pace with the white troops in …” „… elections. They knew what white Southerners would do with them if the Confederacy won its independence. They …”

16. “SHE IS MY EQUAL, AND THE EQUAL OF ALL OTHERS” S. 171-180

„… of his youth. One black child whose father worked as a waiter at the White House later recalled that …” „… from the White House. Mr. Riggs, Lincoln’s banker, apparently “gave him something every morning as he …” „… ,” recalled one White House servant—something that earlier servants would rarely have experi-enced. The …”

7. “WITHOUT MOLESTATION OR INSULT” S. 71-84

„… gate of the White House since the early morning hours, each person wanting “to take by the hand and …” „… into the White House, trampling upon one another’s feet, and “doing some consider-able damage to hats …” „… any colored man presented himself at the White House at the President’s levee . . . he would in all …”

9. “THE OBJECT IS A WORTHY ONE” S. 101-112

„… in colonization funds, and the White House itself might even become useful for fundraising …” „… black ministers of the American Baptist Mission-ary Convention traveled to the White House to ask for …” „… thousand people came out to watch the procession.When the parade reached the White House grounds, the band …”

13. “ALL THE PEOPLE . . . ARE INVITED” S. 153-156

„… . Hundreds of people would throng to the White House to shake the hand of the president. However, the …” „… number of black people nevertheless entered the White House where they found Lincoln dressed in a black …” „… liberty!” Sadly, outside of the White House, young men could be heard “curs-ing the President for this act …”

12. “IN THE PRESENCE OF A FRIEND” S. 143-152

„… her meeting, Truth recalled arriving at the White House at about 8 a.m. with abolitionist Lucy Col-man …” „… that she wished she too had gone to the White House. Although Tubman had been critical of Lincoln’s …” „… On Saturday, February 25, 1865, Truth sought to return to the White House for a reception being …”

NOTES S. 207-236

„… ), 50 (hereafter Negro’s Civil War).9. James B. Conroy, Lincoln’s White House: The People’s House in …” „… S2 0 8White House); John E. Washington, They Knew Lincoln (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1942), 105, 108–9 …” „… ., Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln’s Secretary, William O. Stoddard …”

EPILOGUE. “Emphatically the Black Man’s President” S. 193-204

„… of July of the colored people.” In fact, thousands of African Americans gathered on the White House …” „… black Americans believed that the White House grounds would now always be open to them, and that they …” „… ?”10 How soon a tragic answer would come. In April 1865, Johnson had an interview at the White House …”

17. “THE GREAT GUIDING HAND THAT NOW LAY PARALYZED IN DEATH” S. 185-192

„… privileges of citizenship as well.1 Elizabeth Keckly watched this speech from inside the White House, just a …” „… below the White House portico that night, John Wilkes Booth angrily declared, “That means nigger …” „… women and children, weeping and wailing their loss” on Pennsylvania Avenue outside of the White House on …”

2. “THE POLITICAL WONDERS OF THE YEAR” S. 27-36

„… first African American to visit Lincoln’s White House was Bishop Daniel Alexander Payne of the African …” „… the White House. His text was 1 Timothy 2:1–4, in which the Apostle Paul instructs the young minister …” „… boldly went to the White House to meet with Lincoln. He first sent word that he would be coming, and when …”

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY S. 237-240

„… . Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln’s Secretary, William O. Stoddard …” „… ., eds. Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay. Carbondale: Southern …” „… Illinois University Press, 1997 [Hay Diary].Carpenter, Francis B. Six Months at the White House with …”

11.“DOUGLASS, I HATE SLAVERY AS MUCH AS YOU DO” S. 131-142

„… the White House for a consultation.3Arrangements were made for Douglass to again meet with Lincoln …” „… black Army surgeon who had attended a White House reception with Alexander T. Augusta earlier in the …” „… Subject,” journalist Noah Brooks described the scene at the White House. The hundreds of black revelers …”

INTERLUDE 1. The Office S. 21-26

„… 2 1INTERLUDE 1The OfficeEvery American knows the White House. Millions of tourists visit …” „… . Indeed, it is difficult for twenty-first-century Americans to realize just how open the White House was …” „… opportunity to meet with the president. One Frenchman who visited the White House in 1865 was astounded that …”

15. “A SACRED EFFORT” S. 165-170

„… saw something different in the war than white Americans saw. Just as with the White House a picnic on …” „… difficult road ahead.5 Meanwhile, Frederick Douglass and Mrs. Dorsey made their way to the White House for …” „… Douglass and Mrs. Dorsey walked slowly toward the White House, the great orator thought to himself, “I had …”

INTERLUDE 5. The House Chamber S. 157-158

„… his readers that he had recently attended a reception at the White House where he had “the privilege …” „… the White House . . . in their wildest fancies, dreamed of the possibility, even, of a colored face …” „… previous four years.White Washingtonians were equally impressed by Garnet’s sermon in the House chamber …”

10. “A TESTIMONIAL OF HER APPRECIATION” S. 113-128

„… the cheese for guests at the White House. What was left of the stinky mass in 1803 was dumped into the …” „… overjoyed when she learned that she would be received at the White House on Saturday, April 2. Lincoln …” „… the box containing the wax fruit to the White House with instructions that it should not be opened …”

INTERLUDE 2. Foreign Diplomats S. 53-56

„… families would have to be given some measure of social equality at the White House. “If a full-blooded …” „… slaves in this District, to welcome here at the White House an African, full-blooded, all gilded and …” „… Roumain frequently attended White House levees. One Iowa woman who met Roumain at a dinner party said she …”

5. “THE PROMISE BEING MADE, MUST BE KEPT” S. 57-64

„… White House office—the very room in which he had met with black emi-grationists and with the black …” „… another of these meetings, Gloucester went to the White House in the evening and found the president and …” „… readers, “He told me incidents of his recep-tion at the White House, and expressions of President Lincoln …”

4. “THE LORD HAS WORK FOR ME HERE” S. 47-52

„… proceed. Frustrated with this situation, a delegation of nine black emigrationists went to the White House …” „… On November 1, 1862, Samson and Leonard went to the White House to meet with Lincoln. The president …” „… the White House. As suggested in the previous chapter, Lincoln used that meeting to help prepare the …”

14. “I’VE COME TO PROPOSE SOMETHING TO YOU” S. 159-164

„… , because during the meeting Delany heard cannons boom outside of the White House in celebra-tion of the …” „… that would be led by black officers as well as sympathetic whites.Born free to a free black seamstress …” „… white blood. He is black—black as the blackest—large, heavy set, vigorous, with a bald, sleek head …”

APPENDIX. Unconfirmed Meetings S. 205-206

„… barber William de Fleurville visited the White House, with some scholars stating that he made several …” „… Lincoln called Turner to the White House after the minister wrote to him. To date, the editors of the …” „… Nathaniel P. Banks that “nearly all” of the white officers in his regiment were “Inimical to me, and I can …”

INTERLUDE 6. Richmond S. 181-184

„… contempt” among Southern whites, observed Coffin, for they knew it was “a death-shock to chivalry, and a …” „… Lincoln mingled with the exuberant crowd. He “walked in silence” among Richmond’s white and black …” „… the Declaration of Independence would now be applied to all people, black as well as white. At the end …”

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS S. 241-242

„… the White House or through Lincoln Park. I cherish every moment with her, Charlotte, and Clara, and …” „… which I am grateful. My agent, Mary Evans, who I met through my friend Ron White, has been an ardent …” „… White, inspired me to love both history and teaching. I wouldn’t be a college professor today without …”

INDEX S. 243-250

„… Americans who knew Lincoln or who visited him at the White House are in bold. Abraham Lincoln is abbreviated …” „… Maryland, 136–38, 150; white opposition to, 37, 44, 130, 132, 138, 139–40. See also colonization …” „… , 122, 188, 189, 198, 199Weed, Thurlow, 132Welles, Gideon, 35, 38, 108–9, 130, 186, 188, 191White, Rev …”

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11: Risk and Resilience: Toward a White House Learning Curve S. 279-298

„… 11 Risk and Resilience Toward a White House Learning Curve PRESIDENTIAL FAILURE IS NO ORPHAN: Its …” „… when things go wrong. 1 There is either too much or too little White House command and control. Walking …” „… White House distinguish consilient approaches from abstract model building lacking any empirical …”

5: Rhetoric: Carter and the Malaise Speech S. 91-114

„… , low-income households to pay energy bills, and for mass transit. Congress delayed. Although the White House …” „… the days before it the White House prepped commentators. "The President has made malaise a household …” „… Caddell's ideas as well as with a memo provided by White House communications director Gerald Rafshoon …”

4: Command and Control: Ford and the Mayaguez S. 77-90

„… success for the White House, for those who participated in the operation, it turned into a disaster …” „… captured its crew.2 Ford and Kissinger viewed the seizure as a crisis requiring White House management …” „… polls put him at the lowest point of his presidency. The White House issued a public statement …”

10: Presidents Unbound: Crises of Authority and Legitimacy S. 245-278

„… people to the White House-it is not an attribute presidents possess. Who is asserting authority is as …” „… covert operations excessive delegation of responsibility within the White House to provide plausible …” „… White House stakes but the lower presidential control of these stakes, even (or because) of plausible …”

9: Parallel Governance: Bush and Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction S. 217-244

„… of the United States of America;' www.white house.gov/nsc/nss.html. 73. Joshua Holland, "Bush …” „… (political partisans for the most part) in the White House Counsel's Office and in the Office of Legal …” „… the White House. German intelligence and the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and …”

Index S. 303-316

„… 's use of, 239 performance: failure vs., 3; in presidential fiascoes, 2; White House paradox for, 4, 283 …” „… White House Intelligence Group White House: on budget deficit problem, 155; decision making of, 3; new …” „… House Intelligence Group (WHIG), 226-27; Bush, George W., and, 227 White, Lincoln, 16, 17, 18 Whitewater …”

7: Gamesmanship: Bush 41 and the Budget Summit S. 149-182

„… commitment to stay in place:'1 But White House political advisers were firm that Bush should not abandon his …” „… gain, arguing that a White House decision to face up squarely to the deficit would have several …” „… Democratic leaders at a White House meeting. Democrats insisted that Bush make that pledge even more explicit …”

Introduction: Presidential Fiascoes S. 1-10

„… "What was I thinking?" blunder, the media pack takes off in hot pursuit, and White House spin artists …” „… Vietnam.1 "It is maddening to see one set of White House officials after another, many of them lawyers …” „… rule for pilots is to get the plane down in one piece, surely for occupants of the White House the …”

8: Program Innovation: Clinton and Health Care S. 183-216

„… that when the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and had in the White House in Bill and …” „… establish a White House task force rather than delegate drafting of the plan to the Department of Health and …” „… applied to the Task Force and its working groups. The White House responded that the First Lady was exempt …”

6: Prerogative Power: Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair S. 115-148

„… , either explicitly or with a wink and a nod, but he sacrificed White House command and control to …” „… Intelligence Committee at a meeting at the White House Situation Room on August 6, 1986, that he "did not in …” „… , followed by a full review at the White House on August 6. Shultz warned, "We were just falling into the …”

For Further Reading S. 299-302

„… ?: Polar Politics and the Sensible Center (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996). Charles Kolb, White House …” „… Struggle between the Gingrich Congress and the Clinton White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996). The …” „… , 1994). Bob Woodward, The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994 …”

2: Power Stakes: Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs S. 29-46

„… . The White House requires too much feedback and insists on too much adherence to predetermined plans …” „… ) and Bowles, discounted the opposition of Senator J. William Fulbright (D-AR) and White House aides …” „… White House felt was essential to conceal the U.S. role. So the CIA misjudged the president as much as …”

1: Reputation: Eisenhower and the U-2 Flights S. 11-28

„… ? White House press secretary Jim Haggerty announced that the administration had ordered the resumption …” „… the election of a Democrat to the White House, so much the better-negotiations could then resume with …” „… would be grounded to check their oxygen systems, while State Department spokesperson Lincoln White told …”

3: Compellence: Johnson and the Vietnam Escalation S. 47-76

„… , Johnson once again met with his civilian advisers, now broadened to include his key White House aides …” „… involvement as necessary, while opposition and "no opinion" responses sharply declined. 90 White House news …” „… at the White House West Wing to discuss a pessimistic report from Ambassador Taylor. A restless …”

Preface

„… White House Learning Curve 279 For Further Reading 299 Index 303 About the Author 317 …”

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Ch06. “Ma, Ma, Where’s My Pa? Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha!” S. 69-80

„… 69CHAPTER 6“Ma, Ma, Where’s My Pa? Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha!”Grover Cleveland’s …” „… the White House since before the Civil War. Joyful Democrats chanted the little ditty about the …” „… president-elect’s bastard son, but they added a twist: “Ma, ma, where’s my pa? Gone to the White House, ha, ha, ha …”

Ch11. “I Did Not Have Sexual Relations with That Woman, Miss Lewinsky” S. 139-158

„… other episodes dated from the time before Clinton had moved to the White House.Goldberg envisioned a …” „… sexual relationship with a much younger woman, Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern. After initially …” „… White House and the affair would go undetected was simply unfathomable. Yet he did so, and as a result …”

Index S. 235-248

„… (restaurant), 111West Indies, 20, 22Whig Party, 40White County (Arkansas), 100White, Fanny, 46White House, 6 …” „… , 203White House counsel’s office, 140, 153White House Travel Office, 144Whitewater land deal, 144, 145 …” „… H., 70, 71, 72, 77Banking Committee of the United States House of Representatives, 100Barton, David …”

Ch07. “It’s a Good Thing I’m Not a Woman. I Would Always be Pregnant. I Can’t Say No” S. 81-96

„… that ultimately propelled him into the White House. First, because he was an inoffensive nonentity …” „… Republicans could not reject Harding and hope to capture the White House in 1920. For good or bad, they were …” „… tryst. Sometimes the assignations occurred in his Senate office and, later, in the White House …”

Introduction and Acknowledgments S. 1-10

„… Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Clinton had a long history of sexual misconduct before he …” „… entered the White House. As recounted in chapter 11, his association with Monica Lewinsky was especially …” „… junior inside the White House while his private life was under a microscope was beyond risky. It was …”

Ch14. “Who Would Have Thought That 90 Seconds with Donald Trump Would Turn Into 90 Percent of My Life?” S. 195-216

„… destroyed any other candidate’s chances at capturing the White House. Worse was yet to come. He questioned …” „… , they responded to the claims by attacking the woman. The White House press secretary, Stephanie Grisham …” „… Harold Holzer, The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle Between the White House and the Media …”

Ch04. “You Have Dishonored My House, and You Must Die!” S. 45-56

„… walking in front of the house.Butterworth understood that Sickles, in his volatile state, might erupt into …” „… 45CHAPTER 4“You Have Dishonored My House, and You Must Die!”Daniel Sickles and Philip Barton Key …” „… serving less than a year, he was elected to serve the third congressional dis-trict in the US House of …”

Ch09. “If Anybody Wants to Put a Tail on Me, Go Ahead. They’ll be Very Bored” S. 107-122

„… for the White House and won. He seldom displayed emotion in public. Hart was a policy wonk who was …” „… engaged in sexual acts with a White House intern and another president paid a pornographic film actress to …” „… Campaign for White House; Democrats in Disarray; Coloradan Cites Dismay That Others Have Not Pressed for …”

Ch12. “Out of Respect for My Family, and Out of a Specific Request from the Levy Family, I Think It’s Best That I Not Get Into Those Details” S. 159-178

„… echelon, to be sure—interns in the White House or in one of the high-pro-file agencies could claim to be …” „… of President Clinton’s affair with a young White House 166 Chapter 12intern, Monica Lewinsky, broke …” „… tickets to upcom-ing events at the Kennedy Center or offer access to the gallery when the House of …”

References S. 223-234

„… Pariah in His State.” New York Times, September 9, 1995, 8.Ellefson, Lindsey. “White House Calls Trump …” „… . www.thewrap.com/white-house-calls-trump-assault-accuser-e-jean-carrolls-new-defamation-suit-a-fraud-just-like-the-author/.Ellis, Joseph J. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Vintage, 1998.Evensen …” „… . The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House. New York: Random House, 2005.Hart, Gary. The …”

Preface

„… beecher and eLizabeth tiLton 57CHAPTER 6. “ma, ma, where’s my Pa? gone to the white house, ha, ha, ha …” „… the White House. Courtesy of the Clinton Presidential Library. 142Figure 12.1 Congressman Gary Condit …” „… Petticoat affair 33CHAPTER 4. “you have dishonored my house, and you must die!”: danieL sickLes and PhiLiP …”

Ch03. “She Is as Chaste as a Virgin” S. 33-44

„… : Andrew Jackson in the White House (New York: Random House, 2008), 4, 5; Jeff Smith, “Lords (and Ladies …” „… Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson’s White House (New York: Free Press, 1997), 5–8 …” „… and done, Jackson narrowly lost to John Quincy Adams after the election was thrown into the House of …”

Ch02. “Dreams of Freedom in His Slave’s Embrace” S. 25-32

„… been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined …” „… Prize–winning The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, argued that white scholars’ beliefs that …” „… sources of information, such as oral histories, that augment white people’s letters, diaries, and …”

Afterword S. 217-222

„… Senate career, Gary Condit’s House career, and Anthony Weiner’s House career. Yet Grover Cleveland …” „… media as a white knight. Although a myth arose that Gary Hart dared the press to follow him—he did not …”

Ch08. “She Had the WAYS; He Had the MEANS” S. 97-106

„… in local politics. In 1934 the citizens of White County elected him to serve as a county judge. Four …” „… years later he campaigned for a seat in the United States House of Representatives for the second …” „… years old and the second-youngest House member when he set off for Washington, DC. At five feet eight …”

Ch01. “My Real Crime Is an Amorous Connection with His Wife” S. 11-24

„… chivalrous and upstanding, a white knight who would not hesitate to assist a fellow New Yorker in her hour of …” „… had just met. Had anyone other than an attractive young woman appeared at his house, he probably would …” „… distress.Maria told him the address of the boarding house where she was stay-ing. True to his word, he appeared …”

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Chapter 4 If the British Set Fire to the White House, Why Didn’t the Smoke Detectors Go Off? S. 47-60

„… war of words for the White House.If the British Set Fire to the White House 53Adams accused the …” „… 47• 4 •if the British Set Fire to the White House, Why Didn’t the Smoke Detectors Go off?Ancient …” „… sign the If the British Set Fire to the White House 49Articles of Association (1774), the Declaration …”

Chapter 5 Americans Won Their Freedom on Battles Fought in the East. So When It Was Over, They Moved West. Sure,That Makes Sense. S. 61-76

„… transportation of water through metal pipes to a central location at the White House.Americans Won Their Freedom …” „… Hermitage, had originally been installed in the White House.The president’s cabinet includes the vice …” „… force to protect the White House.This wasn’t the chief executive’s first encounter with angry …”

Chapter 14 Internal Briefings: The Presidency S. 225-252

„… House.Franklin Pierce was the first president to introduce the Christmas tree to the White House.James Buchanan …” „… president to have a telephone in the White House.on election day november 2, 1880, James Garfield was …” „… only president married at the White House.Benjamin Harrison was the first and only president from …”

Chapter 11 Hey Grandpa . . . Were You a Hippie? S. 169-194

„… a precaution, and the Eighty-Second Airborne was brought in to defend the White House.overall, four …” „… president’s problems weren’t just inside the White House.At about 2:00 a.m. on February 17, 1974, Robert …” „… the oath on the South Portico of the White House. His inaugural address was the second shortest in …”

Chapter 7 Following the War, America Lived Happily Ever Afterfor the Next Few Years S. 97-116

„… to becoming the White House resident.Johnson was elected alderman, mayor, state representative, and …” „… with his administration.Two years after he was reelected, and plagued by scandals in the White House, a …” „… the White House. His desk was a gift from Queen Victoria of England. The “Resolute Desk,” as it is …”

Chapter 13 Y2K . . . Was That Like the First Cell Phone? S. 203-224

„… address.“i left the White House,” proclaimed Clinton. “But i’m still here.”nancy Reagan, Hillary Rodham …” „… inauguration of a new president. The amend-ment took effect on october 15, 1933.in 2001, some White House …” „… phones, and $1,150 for professional cleaning. in addition, the White House and the General Services …”

Chapter 12 The 1980s and 1990s, or, as We Call It, The DaysWhen Machines Took Over the Country S. 195-202

„… common difficulty with their bladders.Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko was at the White House to …” „… bladders relieved, a dip-lomatic rapport was forged between the Cold Warriors over some White House …” „… office. But one ex–commander in chief decided years after leaving the White House that he didn’t need the …”

Bibliography S. 265-276

„… Police Riots of 1857,” ezinearticles.com, February 2, 2011.Burdick, Dave, “White House Solar Panels: What …” „… Historical Society Quarterly, April 2002.Collins, Herbert R., “The White House Stables and Garages,” Records …” „… , Hoyt, “When the White House Rat Patrol Declares War!” Milwaukee Jour-nal, october 9, 1975.Meier …”

Chapter 2 Remember, One If by Land, Two If by Sea? No,This Is Not a Math Question! S. 11-36

„… eighty-acre country farm, the officer was received by the elderly mistress of the house.“Madam, i have come to …” „… secret, if two of them are dead.—Benjamin FranklinThe House of Burgesses was the first lawmaking body in …” „… the home of the governor. it was rumored to be a growing conspiracy of poor whites and blacks who were …”

Chapter 9 If It Was the Twentieth Century, Then Why Was It in the 1900s? S. 131-156

„… night prior to his final departure from the White House (March 3, 1913), his last task was to sign his …” „… , everything worked out for him because before moving into the White House, the late bloomer served eight years …” „… at the White House. A check of his medical history showed that this wasn’t his first episode of that …”

Chapter 3 George Washington . . . Some Say That It Was Because of His Teeth, but If You Had His Problems, You Wouldn’tBe Smiling Either S. 37-46

„… the Pamunkey River in new Kent County, Virginia. it was known as the White House.George Washington won …” „… , he wasn’t quite as triumphal. Before he was elected to the House of Burgesses in 1758, G. W. was …” „… group as he mounted his big white horse. “And what might your name be, Sir?”“George Washington, madam …”

Chapter 6 The Civil War: America’s Real Family Feud S. 77-96

„… historic artifact.The Strategy Room in the White House keeps the president updated with the latest …” „… latest news.When Lincoln took office, the White House had no telegraph con-nection. The invention’s …” „… seat in the Confederate House of Representatives.Tyler’s death was the only one in presidential history …”

Chapter 10 You Mean John Wayne Didn’t Win the War for Our Side? S. 157-168

„… more than eight years in the White House was too much, so Congress passed the Twenty-Second Amendment …” „… Reserve during World War ii. At the time, he had been in the House of Representatives since 1937.in 1942 …” „… segregation. Half the bathrooms were for blacks, and the other half were for whites.The Pentagon building also …”

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„… the White House, Why Didn’t the Smoke Detectors Go off? 47Chapter 5 Americans Won Their Freedom on …”

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