The President’s House
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This film features First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson’s tour of the private chambers of the Johnson’s White House. Her tour only includes the living room, the treaty room, and the formal Yellow Oval Room, but she spends time in each one, ruminating over the history and official use of the rooms, and contrasting it to her own family’s use of them. The film is sprinkled with candid family footage, including a lunch in which they discuss purchasing a high chair, and a scene of baby Patrick Lyndon Nugent crawling through his birthday cake on the floor of the Yellow Oval Room, the same room normally used for receptions of state.
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The films created by The White House Naval Photographic Unit documented the life of the President and first family in both an official and unofficial capacity. During the early years of the Johnson administration the films primarily documented ceremonial events, but in June 1966 monthly reports concerning the President began being produced. The monthly reports provide insight into a range of the President’s activities by documenting and presenting a clear portrayal of what the President did in that month. The monthly reports also captured happenings in the life of the first family.
Courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library & Museum, film by the White House Naval Photographic Center, Serial # MP459.
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