Seventeenth-century French diplomat François de Callières once said: “A good cook is often an excellent conciliator."1 Every president has embraced this basic principle and hosted dinners as a mean...

In his new book, John Wrory Ficklin writes about the three generations of his family who worked in the White House.

The very first White House memoir was not written by a president or first lady.1 Rather, it came from Paul Jennings, a free Black man who shared his remarkable life...