This photograph by Marion S. Trikosko captures President Jimmy Carter arriving at Camp David in Catoctin Mountain Park, Maryland on November 23, 1979. Accompanying President Carter on the helicopter trip from the White House to Camp David was, from left to right, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, and Vice President Walter F. Mondale. The group was on hand to meet and discuss the Iran Hostage Crisis, which began earlier that month, on November 4. The hostages would be held for 444 days, until January 20, 1981. Camp David was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, then called Shangri-La, as a presidential retreat. President Dwight D. Eisenhower renamed the retreat Camp David after his grandson, David Eisenhower.

In this photograph, First Lady Rosalynn Carter chairs a hearing on mental health on January 17, 1978. Mrs. Carter was appointed the honorary chair of the President's Commission on Mental Health by her husband, President Jimmy Carter, in 1977. During her time in the White House, Mrs. Carter dedicated her time focusing on the issues surrounding mental health, childhood immunization, and advocating for the Equal Rights Amendment, among many other initiatives.

In this photograph, taken by Cecil Stoughton on June 24, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with leaders from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the Cabinet Room of the West Wing. In attendance was Roy Wilkins, executive director of the NAACP, and over 30 members of the organization's senior leadership including members of the NAACP Board of Directors and vice presidents. The leaders had gathered in Washington, D.C. for the 55th annual convention of the NAACP, where they sought protection from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the federal government for African Americans in Mississippi following the disappearance of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, who were later confirmed to be murdered.

This photograph was taken by Pete Souza on September 8, 2013. Here, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden meet with Senate Republican leaders prior to a dinner at the vice president's residence at the United States Naval Observatory. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss potential United States military action in Syria. Pictured here, seated clockwise from President Obama: Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator Susan Collins; Senator Bob Corker; Senator Saxby Chambliss; Vice President Biden; Senator Kelly Ayotte; and Senator Deb Fischer.

In this photograph, taken on April 15, 1988, Vice President George H. W. Bush meets with former President Richard M. Nixon at the vice president's residence at the United States Naval Observatory. Nixon served as vice president to President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953-1961. Though he lost to John F. Kennedy during the 1960 presidential election, Nixon later successfully ran for president in 1968 and 1972. In 1988, Vice President Bush ran his own presidential election campaign against Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis.

This photograph of President John F. Kennedy meeting with Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani of Italy in the West Sitting Hall was taken by Robert L. Knudsen on June 12, 1961. The curtains are the multicolored printed cotton originally chosen by Sister Parish who designed the room in the early stages of the Kennedy restoration project in 1961. Sister Parish was a socialite and interior designer who worked with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the early stages of her restoration project.

In this photograph, taken by Bill Fitz-Patrick, President Gerald R. Ford greets former Olympic champion Rafer Johnson in the Cabinet Room. Johnson was visiting the White House for the first meeting of the President’s Commission on Olympic Sports (PCOS) on September 9, 1975. President Ford created the commission in response to continuing conflicts among U.S. amateur sports organizations and declining performance by the U.S. in the Olympic games and other international competitions. Johnson won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, Italy. He previously won the silver in the event at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Johnson had an illustrious and varying career that included acting and involvement with the Special Olympics.

In this photograph, taken by Bill Fitz-Patrick on September 9, 1975, President Gerald R. Ford attends the first meeting of the President's Commission on Olympic Sports (PCOS) in the Cabinet Room. President Ford created the commission in response to continuing conflicts among U.S. amateur sports organizations and declining performance by the U.S. in the Olympic games and other international competitions. Among those in attendance were President Ford; Forrest David Mathews, United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; Gerald B. Zornow, PCOS chairman and Chairman of the Board of the Eastman Kodak Company; Donna De Varona, former Olympic swimmer who earned two gold medals at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics; Michael W. Elliott, former three-time Olympic cross-country skier; Barbara Ellen Forker, Director of Physical Education at Iowa State University; Lamar Hunt, founder of the American Football League, Major League Soccer, and co-founder of World Championship Tennis; Rafer Johnson, actor and 1960 Olympic decathlon gold medalist; Micki King, former Olympic gold medal diver and United States Air Force Captain and physical education instructor; Howard K. Smith, ABC television commentator; Ernest M. Vandeweghe, member of the United States Olympic Committee on Basketball; Willye B. White, five-time former Olympic track-and-field athlete; Bud Wilkinson, former football coach, University of Oklahoma and Special Consultant on physical fitness for presidents John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon; James A. McCain, Commissioner of Labor, Kansas State University; Bill Toomey, 1968 Olympic decathlon gold medalist; senators John C. Culver, Ted Stevens, Richard Stone; representatives Jack Kemp, Ralph H. Metcalfe (and former member of the 1932 and 1936 U.S. Olympic team); and Robert H. Michel.

This photograph is of President John F. Kennedy meeting with Deputy Prime Minister John (Jack) R. Marshall of New Zealandin the Oval Office. President John F. Kennedy is sitting in his reupholstered rocking chair. The meeting was photographed by Robert L. Knudsen on June 15, 1962. Before 1909, the president's office was located in the Executive Mansion. During the William H. Taft administration, the West Wing doubled in size from the 1902 renovation and included a presidential oval office. In 1934, during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, the West Wing was expanded and renovated, with the Oval Office relocated to the West Wing’s southeast corner.

In this photograph, taken by Abbie Rowe on June 23, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower receives a group of civil rights leaders in the Oval Office. The leaders met with President Eisenhower to present a program of nine recommendations to aid in the relief of racial tension, violence, and discrimination. The group also commended President Eisenhower for mobilizing the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army to escort and protect African American students during the Little Rock Crisis, as well as his role in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Pictured in this photograph from left to right: Lester B. Granger, executive secretary, National Urban League; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., president, Southern Christian Leadership Conference; E. Frederic Morrow, presidential executive assistant and speechwriter; President Eisenhower; A. Philip Randolph, international president, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Attorney General William P. Rogers; Rocco C. Siciliano, special assistant to the president for personnel management; and Roy Wilkins, president, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

In this photograph, taken on March 23, 2005, President George W. Bush hosts a summit luncheon with world leaders from Canada and Mexico at the Prairie Chapel Ranch, his home near Crawford, Texas. Among those in attendance were President Vicente Fox Quesada of Mexico, Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, and National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley.

This photograph, taken by Paul Morse on December 28, 2006, shows President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush enjoying a lunch of cheeseburgers at their Prairie Chapel Ranch with members of the national security team including Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff United States Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace. While entertaining at their ranch near Crawford, Texas, President Bush and Mrs. Bush frequently served burgers with extra-sharp cheddar cheese and sweet and smokey barbecue sauce, made with care by Matthew Wendel. Wendel is pictured in this photograph at left, serving a cheeseburger.

This photograph was taken by Paul Morse on August 23, 2004, during a luncheon hosted by President George W. Bush at the Prairie Chapel Ranch, his home near Crawford, Texas. The president hosted the luncheon for members of his national defense team, including Vice President Richard B. Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

In this photograph, taken by Eric Draper on May 21, 2007, President George W. Bush hosts a luncheon at the Prairie Chapel Ranch, his home near Crawford, Texas, for Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and his wife, Jeannine de Hoop Scheffer-van Oorschot. President Bush invited the secretary general to the ranch to discuss international security challenges, and NATO operations in Afghanistan and Kosovo. At the lunch, guests were served cheddar cheeseburgers, potato salad, Texas farm cheeses, fruit, brownies, and Blue Bell ice cream. Also present at luncheon were First Lady Laura Bush, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, United States permanent representative to NATO Victoria Nuland, special assistant and senior director for European Affairs for the National Security Council Judith A. Ansley, ambassador Henne Shuwer, NATO spokesman James Appathurai, and military assistant to the Secretary general, Lt. Col. Paul van der Heijden.

This photograph, taken by Eric Draper on August 11, 2005, shows a luncheon that took place at the Prairie Chapel Ranch, President George W. Bush's home near Crawford, Texas. The luncheon was held for the secretary of defense, defense policy and program teams, and the secretary of state and foreign policy teams. To accommodate the large number of guests, dining tables were set up in the spacious living room of the ranch.

This painting by George Peter Alexander Healy depicts four significant Union figures toward the end of the Civil War. In the cabin of the steamer River Queen are seated (from left to right) Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, President Abraham Lincoln, and Rear Admiral David D. Porter. The meeting took place in March 1865 on the James River in City Point, Virginia, less than a week before the fall of Petersburg, Virginia. According to Porter, the discussion flowed mostly between Lincoln and Sherman, which is reflected in all four subjects' body language. Sherman had previously sat for a portrait by Healy and commissioned the artist to paint the meeting, providing him with first-hand accounts by himself and Porter and even a diagram of the cabin. Born in Boston, Healy was a popular portrait painter who had sketched and painted Lincoln multiple times during his presidency.