The Parker House has many claims to fame, including when John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for US Congress in 1946. Something to contemplate while eating the Boston Cream Pie invented in-house.
On November 8, 1960, John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy cast their ballots in the Presidential election here. I think we can guess who they voted for!
All materials held by the Kennedy Library are governed by a formal legal instrument – typically, a Deed of Gift - that formally donates materials to our care to be shared with generations to come.
Did you know George W. Bush is the only president to have a M.B.A. degree? He received it in 1975 from Harvard University.
Did you know President Gerald Ford worked at Yale as a boxing and varsity football coach to attend law school?
While attending Yale Law school, future President Bill Clinton met his future wife and fellow law student, Hillary Rodham in the campus library in 1971.
A speech Ronald Reagan gave here on September 1, 1980 kicked off his Presidential campaign.
President Harry Truman's 1949 inaugural ball occurred here. It was the first inaugural ball to welcome African Americans guests.
This was Lyndon Johnson's home from January 1943 to April 1961.
Between FDR's first and second administrations, the 20th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, changing the Presidential inauguration date from March 4 to January 20.
President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act here in the Rotunda on August 6, 1965.
