On this day in 1944 President George H.W. Bush’s plane was shot down in the Pacific Ocean. What many don’t know about President George H.W. Bush is that he served in the navy during World War II from 1942-1945 and he was the youngest pilot in the navy in 1943. He flew torpedo bombers in… Read More

Laura Bush with a park ranger in Yosemite National Park Steve Jennings / Getty Images Laura Bush Shares Her Camping Photo Album – and Says Roughing It Is More Fun with Girlfriends Than George Laura Bush has been hiking and camping with her childhood girlfriends from Midland, Texas, every summer since they all turned 40.… Read More

WASHINGTON — When Theodore Roosevelt hired an architecture firm to renovate the dark, cramped White House in 1902, much of the structural interior was thrown into piles of trash on the lawn outside: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue had become a construction site. Wood, plaster, glass and even old curtains were strewn about, leaving the once stately… Read More

  Designer Arnold Scaasi and his most famous client, first lady Barbra Bush, at the Council of Fashion Designers of America gala in 1997 where he received a Lifetime Achievement award. (Reutoers Photo: Mike Segar)   Over the course of a career that lasted more than 50 years, designer Arnold Scaasi dressed both first ladies… Read More

Former White House social secretary Ann Stock, left, and current social secretary Deesha Dyer. (Joyce Boghosian.) The cocktail party at ornate Meridian House on Thursday was hardly the stuff of Skull and Bones, but make no mistake about it — this was an initiation rite. With champagne. The social secretaries from embassies of countries from Kenya… Read More