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This Just In: Eat the View Petitions For White House Edible Garden

CitizenSugar — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:50:11 -0700

This Just In: Eat the View Petitions For White House Edible Garden Eat the View is a nonprofit campaign to plant healthy, edible landscapes in high-impact, high-visibility places, and is petitioning for a vegetable garden on the lawn of most visible home in the country, the White House. The premise behind Eat the View's campaign is that as "America's House," the White House should set a positive example for the country and the world.

Vintage Video: Tour the White House With Jackie Kennedy!

LibertySugar — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:00:51 -0700

If you're a history fanatic, you're going to love the vintage White House videos AMC has gathered. The network rolled out some 1960s archive footage to set the scene for its straight-out-of-the-sixties series Mad Men. Especially satisfying, for Jackie Kennedy and presidential trivia fans alike, is video of the White House Tour given by the gracious lady of the (White) House. You can see the first part of the first lady tour below. Mrs. Kennedy confers her knowledge in a calm voice, bringing the presidential residence to life.

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And once you've studied up on your White House trivia, find out how much you know about the Camelot couple's personal history with our Kennedy Quiz. Do you know how old Jackie was when she became first lady, or how many yards of silk it took to make her wedding dress?

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Missing White House Email Records Can Remain Secret, Judge Rules

CitizenSugar — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:55:18 -0700

Missing White House Email Records Can Remain Secret, Judge Rules A federal judge ruled Monday that a White House office that has records about millions of possibly missing emails does not have to make them public. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly says the Office of Administration is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act, enabling the White House to maintain the secrecy of a lengthy internal paper trail about its problem-plagued email system.

Jenna's Big as Texas Wedding Album!

CitizenSugar — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:57 -0700

The dress! The vows! The cake! Laura's MOB dress! It's all here folks! Here's what the wedding that President Bush called "spectacular" looked like. Enjoy!

Quiz Nation! Know About White House Weddings?

CitizenSugar — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:00:40 -0700

Jenna Bush is getting married today, and while our invitation may have been lost in the mail, that will not stop us from getting in the White House wedding spirit! The Associated Press agrees with me — even though no media get to cover the event, they've put together a something old, new, blue White House quiz that I've borrowed from here. . . . see if you catch the bouquet or wind up holding back the maid of honor's hair.

Lynda Bird Johnson's spectacular 1967 wedding pictured here.

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Jenna Bush Is Getting Married Today! White House Weddings Old and New

CitizenSugar — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:00:23 -0700

Jenna Bush is tying the knot, getting hitched, and making it legal at a gorgeous, intimate family ceremony in Crawford, TX, this very day! It's so intimate that they've made it very clear there will be no media coverage. That will not stop us in our pursuit of White House romance and bridal veils! Check out these adorable pictures of White House love, and Jenna, the bride herself, in my favorite snaps. Here comes the bride!

Jenna Bush Dishes Wedding Details, and Why She Said No to the White House

CitizenSugar — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:11 -0700

Jenna Bush was on the Today show with her mom yesterday discussing plans for her upcoming wedding and finally clearing up why it will not take place at the White House. The Pennsylvania Avenue option was of course available to Jenna, but she turned it down saying, “Texas is home to me. . . I did live in Washington, but I never lived in the White House."

The celebration is to take place at sunset on the Crawford, Texas ranch with a guest list of about 200 people. For you detail junkies, Jenna sets the scene:

I guess it maybe says we’re crazy. I wanted to be at home, and I wanted it to feel natural and I wanted it to be a private thing. It’s the one day of my life — it happens once — that I want to have a private time with Henry and my family. Plus, I’m not that glamorous. I’m more an outdoor type.

See? Maybe I wasn't so far off with my cowboy boot comment! To see what everyone will be wearing, and what's in store for the couple post-nuptials,

Here Comes the White House Bride!

CitizenSugar — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:40 -0700

When the wedding march rings out in Crawford, TX on May 10, Jenna Bush will be wearing Oscar de la Renta. The designer just confirmed he's designing the first daughter's gown, saying, "Yes, I am doing her dress. We've already started and we're going to make it very special."

Jenna will be 27 when she marries Henry Hager at her family's ranch. Thank goodness she's getting hitched because it made me find this great web site, WhiteHouseWeddings.com. Did you know:

There have been twenty-one White House weddings, including nine presidential children and one president, Grover Cleveland. Two other presidents were married outside the White House during their time in office, John Tyler and Woodrow Wilson.

I do not know why Jenna's not having her ceremony at the ol' White House — I would do that in a heartbeat! She'll be the best-dressed bride in Texas. I wonder if she's getting white cowboy boots designed to go with?

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Here Comes the White House Correspondents Dinner!

CitizenSugar — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:50:26 -0700

Oh, man this has to be the hottest ticket in town. The special dinner where the press gets to roast the president? Especially one whose approval rating hit 28 percent today and it's his last year in office!? I'm dying, dying to go.

The whole tradition of the dinner started in 1924, when Calvin Coolidge became the first of 14 presidents to attend. Up until World War II, the dinner was an entertainment spectacle with singing between courses, a homemade movie (aw! how cute is that?!), and an hour-long, post dinner show with big-name performers.

This year is no exception. I suppose? Though the list this year doesn't feature Sinatra, (or Paula Jones and Matt Drudge like in this pic from 1998). Ben Affleck, Pamela Anderson, Eric Dane, Tim Daly, Hayden Panettiere, and Marcia Cross will all be there — and kind of inexplicably — Lauren Conrad from The Hills. Maybe LC and GWB are BFFs? Could happen.

The host this year is Scottish-born, now US citizen Craig Ferguson, who said of receiving the honor,

But I thought as soon as I become an American you know what is going to happen, I am going to get jury duty or the CIA. will get in touch and have me assassinate a foreign head of state. Anyway my first job as an American citizen I can exclusively reveal tonight is performing at the White House Correspondents Dinner weekend. I am doing it. I am doing it. I know! Anyway, I am not hosting it. President Bush is . . . I am thinking does he know I can't be kicked out now? Like it would be the
big thing have the dinner and my last act at president, you go home Ferguson. I am like I am home.

The shindig happens April 26. Will this year top Stephen Colbert's turn in 2006? To take a quick peek at the host heard round the world,

On the Newsstand: Look Inside the White House

CitizenSugar — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:00:32 -0800

Think you know your Green Room from your Queen's Bedroom from your Lincoln's Bedroom? If you haven't seen the recent exclusive pictures of the newly redone White House in this month's Architectural Digest, you might not recognize them.

Perfect timing for President's Day, the glossy spread features updates to the decor in almost a dozen rooms, including the Oval Office. From the first occupant, John Adams in 1800, every president has added his own touch to the residence. FDR added the movie theater, which is also featured in the story, having been redone in the rich, red upholstery of early 20th century movie palaces, which was Mrs. Bush's inspiration. I love the calm and crisp yellow in the new Vermeil room, with Lady Bird Johnson's portrait above the mantel.

AD has a fantastic slideshow of the whole house, highlighting all of the updates. Now, I'm no Casa, but my favorite pieces are the rosy-brocade bench at the foot of the bed in the Queen's room and the new Restoration Hardware-esque bedding in the Lincoln Bedroom. I wonder who will be staying there in the Bushes' final year? Moving out of that house must be pretty hard.

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Quiz Nation! The White House

LibertySugar — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:06:07 -0800

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