East Wing Rules

The State Dinner for President Calderón of Mexico got off to a slippery start for White House veteran and current State Department Chief of...

Every modern first lady shows interest in the arts with some being avid fans of a particular form or style.  Jackie Kennedy loved the ballet...

Weddings between centuries old protocol and the technicolor of modern life can embrace or clash in the White House. Work of or through the ...

First ladies get a bit of a throbbing lump in the stomach around this time of year. The rest of the East Wing Staff in the first year look ...

Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961, at Versailles with Charles de Gaulle No first lady will be the recipient of the wild adoration that enveloped Ja...

Two hundred years ago, Dolley Madison had the chamber painted yellow for the rollicking gossipy Wednesday night parties she threw next to th...

First Ladies formal wear, part of the presidential inaugural festivities, extend their natural lives mounted behind glass at the National Mu...

First ladies love their pets.  According to her Thursday speech at the Hilton before 2000 spouses of congress members, Supreme Court justice...