props and backgrounds.” There were no formally sanctioned paintings of the commanders in chief until 1857, when Congress enacted legislation to collect existing presidential portraits to be ...

Sitting presidents traditionally host their predecessor at the White House for a ceremony to unveil an official portrait. In ...

The new White House portraits of the first lady and the president tell a story of hard ... the obelisk in the background. But its totality is more of a fashion photograph than a portrait of ...

The release of president Donald Trump’s official portrait last week on his campaign website led me to Dwight D. Eisenhower, our lone Kansas president. I wondered how the portraits of ...

President Donald Trump would like the U.S. Department of Education closed "immediately," he told reporters while in the Oval ...