One of the benefits of being President is the ability to work from home. Since John Adams moved to the White House in 1800, all of the following presidents have had the good fortune of living at his official workplace in Washington, D.C.
Like many other Americans who work from home, this means that presidents have had the opportunity to spend more time with their families. In recent history, President Barack Obama praised this configuration for helping him to reconcile professional and family life as commander-in-chief.
“[P]perhaps the greatest unexpected gift of this work was to live above the store, “he wrote in a 2016 essay for Charm. “For many years, my life has been consumed by long journeys… But for seven and a half years, this journey has been reduced to 45 seconds – the time it takes to walk from my living room to the oval office. As a result, I was able to spend a lot more time watching my daughters become intelligent, funny, kind and wonderful young women. “
The photographers captured pretty photos of presidential children playing in the oval office and also documented social events with presidential children. Richard Nixon’s daughter Tricia married Ed Cox in the White House during his father’s presidency. Gerald Ford also arranged for his daughter Susan’s prom to be held at the White House.
Because presidents take their work with them wherever they go, photographers have also captured presidents working in their private residences in their home countries. As a result, presidents often wore more casual clothing, such as when President George W. Bush wore jeans when he first met Russian President Vladimir Putin on his ranch in Crawford, Texas. There have also been sincere images of commanders-in-chief working in their dresses and pajamas, in the White House or elsewhere.
Click the gallery below to view photos of presidents working from home over the decades, as well as a painting of George Washington working from his home in Mount Vernon, Virginia. (He is the only president who has never lived in the White House because it has not yet been built.)
President Gerald Ford having breakfast, he arranged for himself in the small kitchen of the living quarters of the White House while browsing the papers.
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