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First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953
The Truman Balcony was installed during Harry S. Truman’s postwar White House reconstruction primarily to provide functional and to visually balance the White House’s south face by breaking up long ve...
Jacqueline Kennedy is widely credited with overseeing the most extensive *restoration* of the White House interiors and collections in the early 1960s, commissioning research, acquisitions, and a high...
has published portraits and profiles of since 1929, but only a small number have actually graced the magazine’s cover; archival and contemporary reporting identify ’s 1929 in‑magazine appearance and t...
The Truman “reconstruction” gutted the White House interior between roughly 1948–1952 and is reported in multiple records as costing about $5.7 million (with some contemporary sources citing slightly ...