Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower , 1959 by Thomas Edgar Stephens Having a boatload of cookbooks means that I often get requests to find recip...

From Eleanor's fur stoles to Hillary's striped slacks, a photo tour of the 20th century's White House women.

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It's hard to picture what American presidents were like before they left their marks on domestic and foreign policy.

There was a time when the best a mother might hope for in terms of her daughter rising to the heights of political power was to be married to the President of the United States. There is no known image of the first American woman who had the experience of witnessing this happening, Juliana Gardiner

17th October 1957, President Dwight D, Eisenhower and Mamie Eisenhower, centre, with HM,Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip before a state dinner in the White House, Washington D,C, Dwight D,Eisenhower...

(A historical marker located in Fort Benning in Chattahoochee County, Georgia.)

After combing through 95,000 images in its archives, the White House News Photographers Association has put together an exhibit of candid presidential moments — some well-known, some locked away for decades.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, as supreme commander of Allied forces during World War II, led the massive invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe that began on D-Day. Later, as U.S president, he managed Cold War-era tensions with the Soviet Union, ended the war in Korea in 1953, strengthened Social Security and created the massive new Interstate Highway System.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum is located in Abilene, Kansas, the town that General Eisenhower claimed as his hometown.

There is at least one custom common among those who've lived in the White House and all who have not. Friends, family and colleagues of everyday folk gather for christenings, graduations, weddings and, yes, funerals. Presidents and First Ladies gather for Inaugurations, Presidential Library and Museum dedications and, yes, funerals. At today's memorial service for former

General Eisenhower, General Spaatz, General Doolittle and Major General Kepner are shown at the awarding of the DFC to Captain Gentile.

First Lady Mamie Eisenhower 1953 TIME over art by Boris Chaliapin

American actor John Wayne and US First Lady Mamie Eisenhower attend a dinner in honor of Congressional Republicans at the Sheraton Hotel, Washington DC, June 8, 1959.

These Presidents didn't want the state of their health to affect the state of the nation.