This photograph of Tricia Nixon answering questions from journalists about her engagement to Edward Cox was taken on March 17, 1971 by Jack E. Kightlinger. Tricia Nixon was the eldest daughter of President Richard M. Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon. Her engagement and wedding garnered much attention from the media. The press conference took place in the Map Room, which is located on the Ground Floor of the Executive Mansion. It got its name when Franklin D. Roosevelt used the room to monitor and intake classified information during World War II. The room was the original Situation Room. Today the room acts as a sitting room but still displays maps in homage to its origins.

This photograph of Tricia Nixon answering questions from journalists about her engagement to Edward Cox was taken on March 17, 1971 by Jack E. Kightlinger. Tricia Nixon was the eldest daughter of President Richard M. Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon. Her engagement and wedding garnered much attention from the media. The press conference took place in the Map Room, which is located on the Ground Floor of the Executive Mansion. It got its name when Franklin D. Roosevelt used the room to monitor and intake classified information during World War II. The room was the original Situation Room. Today the room acts as a sitting room but still displays maps in homage to its origins.

In this photograph, President Ronald Reagan poses with coach John Thompson and center Patrick Ewing of the Georgetown University men's basketball team. The trio were shot in the Map Room on the Ground Floor of the White House as part of a photo shoot for the cover of "Sports Illustrated" magazine by Pete Souza on November 11, 1984. The Georgetown Hoyas won the NCCA Division I Men's Championship the previous April. The Hoyas championship was the first for the university and made Thompson the first African-American head coach to lead his team to victory.

This photograph is of President Barack Obama working on his address to the nation regarding Syria, in the Map Room of the White House, on September 10, 2013. Seated from right are: director of speechwriting Cody Keenan; Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor for strategic communications; senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer; director of speechwriting Jon Favreau; President Obama; and an unidentified man.

This map depicts the route of Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales and the future King Edward VII of Great Britain, during his 1860 goodwill tour of Canada and United States. Initially his mother, Queen Victoria, intended the for Prince of Wales to visit Canada. After hearing of the prince's tour, President James Buchanan invited him to the White House and the trip was expanded to include the United States. The map showing his route was published in British novelist Marie Belloc Lowndes' biography of the Prince of Wales entitled "H. R. H., the Prince of Wales; an account of his career, including his birth, education, travels, marriage and home life; and philanthropic, social and political work."