A meeting at the White House
This August 14, 1956, photograph shows President Dwight D. Eisenhower meeting with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at the White House. Dulles was Eisenhower’s...
Artifact of Watergate
Claiming executive privilege, President Richard Nixon offered Watergate investigators transcriptions of his taped conversations about the 1972 burglary of the...
Burning the midnight oil
The lights in the White House were burning bright in this photograph taken during the height of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. The Soviet Union had placed...
Ike talks about Suez
At 7 p.m. on October 31, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed the nation on international affairs. After discussing Soviet intervention in Hungary, he...
Kennedy and Gromyko
Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko visited President John F. Kennedy on October 18, 1961. After discussing the situation in Berlin, Gromyko finally...
Saigon falls
On April 29, 1975, the fall of Saigon ended America's longest war. This log describes phone calls made by the White House staff to senators informing them that the...
Saving energy
President Jimmy Carter in the White House library on February 2, 1977, during a televised Fireside Chat on Energy conservation.