How Lorraine Waxman Pearce Turned The White House Into A Museum

The White House looks permanent on TV, but its history has to be protected one object at a time. We’re joined by Leslie Calderone, Director of the White House History Digital Archives at the White House Historical Association, to introduce a name most Americans have never heard: Lorraine Waxman Pearce , the first curator of the White House. We go back to the moment that quietly set everything in motion: Jacqueline Kennedy’s 1941 White House tour, when the rooms felt sparse on historic furnis...