The official White House Christmas Tree, an 18½ foot Fraser fir from Fleetwood, North Carolina, can be seen in the Blue Room. Click on https://www.whitehouse.gov/holidays-2023/ to see the rest of the decorations. (Image: White House)
World leaders are being banished to the less-than-dignified White House driveway to engage reporters because President Biden has abandoned the decades-old tradition of holding joint press conferences when heads of foreign governments visit, which critics say undermines U.S. relations around the globe.
President Richard M. Nixon hosted the largest dinner in White House history in 1973, to honor the final Vietnam War POWs freed under the accord ending the war.(AP Photo/File)