Nancy Patricia Pelosi is an American politician who served as the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,she was the first woman elected as U.S. House Speaker and the first woman to lead a major political party in either chamber of Congress,leading the House Democrats from 2003 to 2023. A member of the House since 1987,Pelosi currently represents California's 11th congressional district,which includes most of San Francisco.
Melania Trump is a Slovenian-American former model and businesswoman who served as the first lady of the United States from 2017 to 2021,as the wife of former president Donald Trump. Trump grew up in Slovenia and worked as a fashion model through agencies in the European fashion capitals of Milan and Paris,before moving to New York City in 1996. She was represented by Irene Marie Models and Trump Model Management.
Elizabeth Lynne Cheney is an American attorney and politician. She represented Wyoming's at-large congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2017 to 2023,and served as chair of the House Republican Conference—the third-highest position in the House Republican leadership—from 2019 to 2021. Cheney is known for her vocal opposition to former President Donald Trump. As of March 2023,she is a professor of practice at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Mar-a-Lago is a resort and National Historic Landmark in Palm Beach,Florida,owned since 1985 by Donald Trump.
David Hume Kennerly is an American photographer. He won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his portfolio of photographs of the Vietnam War,Cambodia,East Pakistani refugees near Calcutta,and the Ali-Frazier fight in Madison Square Garden. He has photographed every American president since Lyndon B Johnson. He is the first presidential scholar at the University of Arizona.
Jon Ellis Meacham is an American writer,reviewer,historian and presidential biographer who is serving as the Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral since November 7,2021. A former executive editor and executive vice president at Random House,he is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review,a contributing editor to Time magazine,and a former editor-in-chief of Newsweek. He is the author of several books. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Lion:Andrew Jackson in the White House. He holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Endowed Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt University.
The Office of Presidential Correspondence is one of the largest and oldest offices in the White House,and is a component of the Office of the White House Staff Secretary. In the administration of Joe Biden,the Office of Presidential Correspondence was led by Director Eva Kemp. Kemp left the office in September 2021 to become Vice President at Precision Strategies. Deputy Director Garrett Lamm was promoted to take over for Kemp after her departure.
Beginning with painter Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington,it has been traditional for the president of the United States to have an official portrait taken during their time in office,most commonly an oil painting. This tradition has continued to modern times,although since the adoption of photography as a widely used and reliable technology,the official portrait may also be a photograph.
Peter Joseph Souza is an American photojournalist,the former chief official White House photographer for Presidents of the United States Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama and the former director of the White House Photography Office. He was a photographer with The Chicago Tribune,stationed at the Washington,D.C.,bureau from 1998 to 2007;during this period he also followed the rise of then-Senator Obama to the presidency.
Chris Buck is a New York-based photographer known for his unconventional portraits.
Hope Charlotte Hicks is an American public relations executive and political advisor who served in President Donald Trump’s administration from 2017 to 2018 and 2020 to 2021. She served as White House director of strategic communications from January to September 2017,as White House communications director from 2017 to 2018,and returned to serve as a counselor to the president from 2020 to 2021.
Pamela Hughes Patenaude is a former United States Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development,having served from September 2017 to January 2019,under President Donald Trump.
The official White House photographer is a senior position appointed by the president of the United States to cover the president's official day-to-day duties. There have been twelve official White House photographers. Since the beginning of the presidency of Joe Biden,the position has been occupied by Adam Schultz.
Sarah Elizabeth Huckabee Sanders is an American politician serving since 2023 as the 47th governor of Arkansas. Sanders is the daughter of Mike Huckabee,who served from 1996 to 2007 as Arkansas's 44th governor. A member of the Republican Party,she was the 31st White House press secretary,serving under President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2019. Sanders was the third woman to be White House press secretary. She also served as a senior advisor on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Sanders became the Republican nominee in the 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election and won,defeating Democratic nominee Chris Jones.
David Valdez is an American photographer,best known for being the Chief Official White House Photographer from 1989 to 1993,during the presidency of George H. W. Bush.
Doug Mills is an American photographer who has covered the White House since 1983. He began working for The New York Times in 2002,having previously been the chief photographer for The Associated Press in Washington,in which capacity he won two Pulitzer prizes for team coverage. As of February 2019 he is a board member of the White House Correspondents' Association.
On June 22,2018,a co-owner of The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington,Virginia,asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders,then the White House press secretary,to leave. The co-owner later cited Sanders' role in what they called the "inhumane and unethical" Trump administration in which Sanders had "publicly defended the president's cruelest policies." The Red Hen plans to cease operations at the end of December 2023 and rebrand as a new concept.
The 2020 State of the Union Address was given by the 45th president of the United States,Donald Trump,on February 4,2020,at 9:00 p.m. EST,in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to the 116th United States Congress. It was Trump's third and final State of the Union Address and his fourth and final speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker,Nancy Pelosi,accompanied by Mike Pence,the vice president,in his capacity as the president of the Senate.
Erin Schaff is an American photographer and photojournalist. She currently works as a political photographer for The New York Times based in Washington,D.C. She has covered numerous political events in Washington,D.C.,most notably the Ford-Kavanaugh sexual assault hearings,the first impeachment of Donald Trump,and the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump.
