{"id":1363,"date":"2017-11-08T10:29:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T15:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2018-04-16T12:41:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:41:29","slug":"mrs-kennedy-and-the-white-house-historical-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/mrs-kennedy-and-the-white-house-historical-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. Kennedy and the White House Historical Association"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is hard to believe that the White House Historical Association is only 56 years old.\u00a0 In 1961 Mrs. Jackie Kennedy<\/a> founded the organization\u00a0because she was passionate about the preservation of the White House for posterity. Since its founding, the nonprofit remains true to its mission of “enhancing the understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of the Executive Mansion”, also known as the White House.<\/h5>\n
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Before Mrs. Kennedy’s vision for truly preserving the White House, there was no formal archival, collection, or acquisition process for furniture, artwork, and historic preservation. The proceeds\u00a0of the many outreach programs, events, lectures, and merchandise sales like my two books, Christmas at the White House<\/a> and Pets at the White House<\/a>, go to secure works of art for the permanent\u00a0White House collection, artifacts, furniture and so much more. Many have come to enjoy unique items such as the annual White House Christmas Ornament<\/a>, and the wooden White House Easter Eggs for souvenirs.<\/h5>\n
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Earlier this year, I was honored to be present for President and Mrs. Trump’s\u00a0special social dinner<\/a>\u00a0in honor of the White House Historical Association\u00a0at the White House where she said “…since its founding in 1961 by First Lady Jackie Kennedy, has the chartered mission of telling the stories of this grand home and the families and people who lived and worked here.\u00a0The artifacts on display earlier this evening are some of the greatest in the White House collection.\u00a0 Those priceless mementos are figures of our history.\u00a0 They give incredible insight [into] the past presidents, first families, and the White House itself.\u00a0 They help tell the story of our nation.\u00a0 They also underscore why your support of the White House Historical Association is so important.”<\/h5>\n
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To learn more about the work of the White House Historical Association\u00a0you can visit www.whitehousehistory.org<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n
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It is hard to believe that the White House Historical Association is only 56 years old.\u00a0 In 1961 Mrs. Jackie Kennedy founded the organization\u00a0because she was passionate about the preservation of the White House for posterity. Since its founding, the nonprofit remains true to its mission of “enhancing the understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of the… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,31,28,29,25,32,33,22],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-white-house-wednesdays","tag-antiques","tag-firstlady","tag-history","tag-jackiekennedy","tag-whitehouse","tag-whitehousehistoricalassociation","tag-whitehousehistory","tag-whitehousewednesdays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}