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| Date: | 03 12 1965 |
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| Description: | Recently-appointed Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach answers questions from the press. To his left is George Reedy, press secretary for President Lyndon... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Merriman Smith, perched on a table with Dayton Moore in the press lounge. They are two correspondents who covered the White House. |
| Date: | 04 04 1964 |
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| Description: | President Lyndon Johnson meets with the press in the Cabinet meeting room. |
| Date: | 01 25 1961 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of President John F. Kennedy standing at a podium at his first press conference. |
| Date: | 02 06 1969 |
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| Description: | President Richard Nixon fields a question from UPI's Merriman Smith, the dean of the White House correspondents. Smith was particularly known for closing p... |
| Date: | 03 22 1945 |
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| Description: | At the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents Association, President Franklin Roosevelt congratulates Raymond Brandt, the winner of the Clapper Aw... |
| Date: | 02 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Admiral William D. Leahy, the personal representative of President Truman, greets former Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Washington D.C. airport. L... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A general view of the Disarmament Conference in Memorial Continental Hall from the balcony. Politicians sit around tables, and an audience gathers on the m... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Journalist Ruth Finney, one of the few women journalists who covered hard news in Washington D.C. Finney was married to columnist Robert S. Allen, but cont... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Snapshot of a break in the deliberations during the famous Roosevelt "Court Packing Case." Journalist Robert S. Allen, who was covering the story, can be s... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A view of a line of soldiers in the drill field, holding firearms. One officer stands in front of them, and another behind. Two large buildings in the back... |
| Date: | 02 19 1965 |
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| Description: | Attorney General Nicholas Kastenbach administers the oath of office to Postmaster General John A. Gronouski at the White House. From left to right are John... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Students stand at work stations in the machine shop at Bliss Electrical School. They men all appear to be wiring something on a mount. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three Confederate veterans sitting in a tent at the National Confederate Reunion. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | An International D-246-F truck outfitted with a Jaeger 3 1/2 cubic yard concrete mixer parks at a construction site. Boards and cinder blocks are piled in ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | An International D-246-F truck owned by Transit Mixed Concrete Company Inc. parked beneath a bridge. The truck is outfitted with a Jaeger 3 1.2 cubic yard ... |
| Date: | 12 21 1993 |
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| Description: | Les Aspin (second from the right) served as Secretary of Defense during the administration of President Clinton. He is seen here at the Pentagon holiday pa... |
| Date: | 07 1972 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey and Senator Gaylord Nelson posed talking in front of the statue of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. in the National Statuary Hall in th... |
| Date: | 06 1970 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey and Senator William Proxmire outside the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. The photograph was taken for use in the campaign li... |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey (standing below the C) greets a delegation from Wisconsin that accompanied the official Capitol Christmas Tree cut in the Chequam... |
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