White House Red Room, decorated by B. Altman’s department store of New York, about 1960, one of the rooms that looked to Jackie Kennedy like public room of a Statler Hilton and moved her to undertake her restoration:
One of President Nixon’s favorite DC restaurants was Trader Vic’s, at Statler Hilton near White House:
Almost looks like portrait of Conrad Hilton over the Red Room fireplace.
Conrad Hilton was once married to Zsa Zsa Gabor:
And, to close the circle, Zsa Zsa Gabor was a friend of the Nixons:
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Municipal Auditorium, Austin, Texas, waiting for arrival of President and Mrs. Kennedy, November 22, 1963:
Austin banquet hall staged for “Texas Welcome Dinner” for JFK and Jackie, evening of November 22, 1963:
For JFK's final Texas banquet, in Austin, November 22, 1963, eight thousand steaks had been ordered by LBJ’s favored caterer, Walter Jetton, “King of Barbecue”:
Walter Cronkite’s last broadcast of the “CBS Evening News"
was forty years ago tonight:
Walter Cronkite got interview with JFK on Cape Cod for his first thirty-minute edition of CBS Evening News, extended from fifteen minutes, September 1963:
President Harry Truman gives Walter Cronkite a tour of his newly-renovated White House, 1952:
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."
Ronald and Nancy Reagan after wedding, today 1952, at home of their friends Ardis and William Holden, who were the only guests. Mrs. Reagan much later told me that the Holdens were fighting that day, and barely spoke to each other. Toluca Lake, California.
William Holden served as Ronald Reagan’s best man two years after appearing with Gloria Swanson in “Sunset Boulevard” (1952).
Sadly Holden met a sad end in 1981, when, after drinking in his apartment, he fell, struck his head and bled to death.
Disguised Borat interrupts Pence speech at CPAC a year ago this week, with “daughter” over his shoulder — scene appeared in "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” (2020):
Another scene from “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” (2020):
Any particular reason why Pence won’t speak at CPAC this year?