A Look Back: Official Life in the White House

American Presidents have welcomed vistitors from Marie Curie to Mikhail Baryshnikov to the White House over the years

President William H. Taft prepares to open the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition in Seattle by pressing a telegraph key in the East Room, 1909.

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In Performance At The White House: A Celebration of Music From The Civil Rights Movement February 12, 2010	February 2010: Photo of the Day February 1, 2010	State of the Union January 28, 2010	The First Year January 18, 2010
The Vice President in Little Haiti January 18, 2010	January 2010: Photo of the Day January 5, 2010	A Breakthrough in Copenhagen December 18, 2009	The President Accepts the Nobel Peace Prize December 10, 2009