President's Dining Room, Lyndon B. Johnson Administration
This photograph of the President's Dining Room was taken by George F. Mobley of the National Geographic Service in May 1964 during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. The room is located on the Second Floor of the Executive Mansion in the northwest corner. The President's Dining Room was originally a bedroom referred to as the Prince of Wales Room after the 1860 visit of Edward Albert, Queen Victoria's son who would later become King Edward VII. It was not until the Kennedy administration that the room became the President's Dining Room and main eating room for the First Family. The deep purple china picked out by First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln is set at the table along with two silver candlesticks purchased by President James Monroe.