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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Presidential Unit Citation: Blackhorse Regiment October 20, 2009	October in New Orleans October 15, 2009	In Performance at the White House: Fiesta Latina October 13, 2009	The President and First Lady Visit Copenhagen October 2, 2009
A Health Reform Town Hall with Seniors September 23, 2009	Vice President Biden Visits Iraq September 18, 2009	"Let the Games Begin!" September 17, 2009	Remarks by the President on Health Care September 10, 2009