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First Lady of the United States from 1901 to 1909
Jacqueline Kennedy is the widely credited First Lady who , leading a professional team to reframe the Executive Mansion as a museum of the presidency and bringing that work to the public via a televis...
The White House grounds and its component spaces — most notably the East Wing and the Rose Garden — have been repeatedly redesigned, repurposed, and contested from the early 1900s through 2025, with r...
The design of the White House grounds reflects layered decisions across administrations that balanced . Recent reporting shows a continuing pattern: major structural changes — from the post‑1814 rebui...
The Rose Garden’s original purpose was to serve as a formal, colonial-style ornamental garden on the White House grounds that evolved into a during the Kennedy administration when Rachel “Bunny” Mello...
The East Wing of the White House evolved from a formal entry and social space into a functional headquarters for successive First Ladies who professionalized the role, and that historical trajectory i...
The West Wing was built primarily to provide , initially constructed as a temporary solution during Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency in 1902 but later made permanent and expanded by subsequent administ...
The East Wing has functioned as the operational and symbolic base for first ladies, evolving from a small social-secretary office under Edith Roosevelt into a professionalized with staff, policy initi...