Thread by @BeschlossDC

White House Fish Room (now Roosevelt Room) under JFK displayed mounted head from deer hunt that LBJ compelled him to go on at LBJ Ranch (Johnson suggested that Kennedy display the deer head in Oval Office) and billfish JFK caught on 1953 Acapulco honeymoon with Jackie:

No, Mexico did not pay for the fish caught on JFK’s honeymoon.

At left on the desk in the photograph of JFK’s Fish Room is an old invention called a “typewriter."

Can anyone count the number of ash trays in JFK’s White House Fish Room?

JFK White House staff tried to divert photographers from taking pictures of Jackie Kennedy smoking.

At times, she also favored cigarette holders:

Here is link to New YorkTimes piece I wrote in 2014 about Kennedy, Johnson and the disputed 1960 deer hunt at LBJ Ranch, with JFK saying, "That will never be a sport until they give the deer a gun”:

nytimes.com/2014/08/16/ups…

Theodore Roosevelt liked to display animal heads at White House, installing his own “trophies” in State Dining Room: #LOC

As a young woman, Eleanor Roosevelt would sit down in dining room for a meal with the President, her “Uncle Ted,” and “suddenly look up to find the eye of a stuffed moose or some other animal staring down at you.”

After hunt in Texas, LBJ poses next to Cadillac with two slain deer, 1955:

LBJ had taken Senator Estes Kefauver (left) out hunting.

Woman at far left looks like Marx Brothers’ humorless friend Margaret Dumont, but it was actually someone else.