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The White House has 132 rooms, and each new US president gets $100,000 to redecorate them. With every new president comes new design choices , often reflecting their values and political views.
The White House is aiming for visitors to embrace “their inner child” with its annual holiday decor, with a theme “inspired by how children experience this festive season.” The theme ...
In the Blue Room, the official White House Christmas tree — an 18 1/2-foot (5.6-meter) Concolor fir from Auburn, Pennsylvania — is decorated to represent unity and hope with handmade ...
The design of White House invitations has evolved over time. Dinner invitations going back to the administration of John Adams, the first president to live in the White House, are archived and have inspired the current invitations. In President Adams' day invitations were letterpress printed with the passage reading "The President of the United ...
Seale, William, The White House: The History of an American Idea. White House Historical Association: 1992, 2001. ISBN 0-912308-85-0. The White House: An Historic Guide. White House Historical Association and the National Geographic Society: 2001. ISBN 0-912308-79-6. West, J.B. with Mary Lynn Kotz. Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the ...
The White House's Art collection was established by an Act of Congress in 1961 and grew extensively during the Kennedy Administration. [5] It now includes more than 65,000 objects if individual items are catalogued. [6]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden trained her educator's eye on the White House public tour and on Monday is unveiling an updated version she helped design to teach visitors more about the mansion's history and events that unfolded in some of its famous rooms. A new stop on the tour is the Diplomatic Reception Room, previously off-limits.
U.S. First Lady Jill Biden delivers remarks during the unveiling of the 2023 White House Holiday decor, in the Grand Foyer of the White House on Nov. 27, 2023, in Washington, D.C.