This photograph of President John F. Kennedy and White House Executive Chef René G. A. Verdon was taken by Cecil Stoughton on May 2, 1963. Chef Verdon joined the Kitchen team in a temporary capacity in 1961 but was soon hired by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy as the first White House Executive Chef. He held that role until 1966. A native of France, this photograph was captured one day after Verdon became a United States citizen.

This photograph of White House butlers Ron Guy, left, and Von Everett, right, was taken by Pete Souza on October 13, 2009. Guy and Everett are captured setting the long table in the Cabinet Room ahead of President Barack Obama's working lunch with Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of Spain. The Cabinet Room is located in the West Wing.

This photograph of White House valet Zosimo T. Monzon with his wife and President Ronald Reagan was taken by Susan Biddle on July 28, 1988. Monzon was born in the Philippines and served in the United States Navy for three decades. His route to the White House started in the 1950s when he was assigned to President Harry S. Truman when he traveled to Key West, Florida and, later, at the White House. From around 1961 to 1988 he worked as a houseman, in the White House laundry, and as valet to President Richard M. Nixon and President Gerald R. Ford. He retired from the Navy in 1978.

In this photograph taken by Barbara Kinney on December 5, 1993, White House engineer Brian K. Rock holds Socks the cat at the podium in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the West Wing. Socks was the pet cat of President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton. Rock worked at the White House for 30 years, beginning in 1988, and cared for Socks while President Clinton was in office.

This photograph of President Ronald Reagan and Paul D. Fischer, movie operator at the White House, was taken by Pete Souza on March 26, 1986. Fischer was a veteran of the Korean War who, while working on the presidential yacht the USS Williamsburg, heard about a job opportunity at the White House for a projectionist who knew how to operate 35 mm film. Fischer would work at the White House for over three decades, retiring in 1986. President Reagan and Fischer are captured here during a farewell photo opportunity upon Fischer's retirement.

This photograph of the Oval Office was taken on January 14, 1961 during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration. This photograph captures how the Oval Office looked in the final days of President Eisenhower's time in office before President John F. Kennedy was sworn into office. Before 1909, the president's office was located in the Executive Mansion. During the William H. Taft administration, the West Wing doubled in size from the 1902 Theodore Roosevelt renovation and included a presidential oval office. In 1934, during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, the West Wing was expanded and renovated, with the Oval Office relocated to the West Wing’s southeast corner.

This photograph of the Oval Office was taken on January 14, 1961 during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration. This photograph captures how the Oval Office looked in the final days of President Eisenhower's time in office before President John F. Kennedy was sworn into office. Before 1909, the president's office was located in the Executive Mansion. During the William H. Taft administration, the West Wing doubled in size from the 1902 Theodore Roosevelt renovation and included a presidential oval office. In 1934, during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, the West Wing was expanded and renovated, with the Oval Office relocated to the West Wing’s southeast corner.

This photograph of the Oval Office was taken on January 14, 1961 during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration. This photograph captures how the Oval Office looked in the final days of President Eisenhower's time in office before President John F. Kennedy was sworn into office. Before 1909, the president's office was located in the Executive Mansion. During the William H. Taft administration, the West Wing doubled in size from the 1902 Theodore Roosevelt renovation and included a presidential oval office. In 1934, during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, the West Wing was expanded and renovated, with the Oval Office relocated to the West Wing’s southeast corner.

This photograph of the Presidential Seal on the ceiling of the Oval Office was taken on February 27, 1957 during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration. Before 1909, the president's office was located in the Executive Mansion. During the William H. Taft administration, the West Wing doubled in size from the 1902 Theodore Roosevelt renovation and included a presidential oval office. In 1934, during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, the West Wing was expanded and renovated, with the Oval Office relocated to the West Wing’s southeast corner.

This photograph of the Oval Office was taken on February 27, 1957 during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration. Before 1909, the president's office was located in the Executive Mansion. During the William H. Taft administration, the West Wing doubled in size from the 1902 Theodore Roosevelt renovation and included a presidential oval office. In 1934, during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, the West Wing was expanded and renovated, with the Oval Office relocated to the West Wing’s southeast corner.

This photograph of a wall sconce in the Oval Office was taken on February 27, 1957 during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration. In the photograph is an unidentified man measuring the sconce. Before 1909, the president's office was located in the Executive Mansion. During the William H. Taft administration, the West Wing doubled in size from the 1902 Theodore Roosevelt renovation and included a presidential oval office. In 1934, during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, the West Wing was expanded and renovated, with the Oval Office relocated to the West Wing’s southeast corner.

This photograph of the Oval Office was taken on January 14, 1961 during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration. This photograph captures how the Oval Office looked in the final days of President Eisenhower's time in office before President John F. Kennedy was sworn into office. Before 1909, the president's office was located in the Executive Mansion. During the William H. Taft administration, the West Wing doubled in size from the 1902 Theodore Roosevelt renovation and included a presidential oval office. In 1934, during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, the West Wing was expanded and renovated, with the Oval Office relocated to the West Wing’s southeast corner.

This photograph of the painting "Towers of Riga" was taken in the Oval Office on February 27, 1957 during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration. "Towers of Riga" was painted by Ludolfs Liberts and gifted to President Eisenhower by a group of displaced Latvians to thank him for assisting in their "new start" in the United States. Before 1909, the president's office was located in the Executive Mansion. During the William H. Taft administration, the West Wing doubled in size from the 1902 Theodore Roosevelt renovation and included a presidential oval office. In 1934, during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, the West Wing was expanded and renovated, with the Oval Office relocated to the West Wing’s southeast corner.

This photograph of the Oval Office was taken on February 27, 1957 during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration. Before 1909, the president's office was located in the Executive Mansion. During the William H. Taft administration, the West Wing doubled in size from the 1902 Theodore Roosevelt renovation and included a presidential oval office. In 1934, during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, the West Wing was expanded and renovated, with the Oval Office relocated to the West Wing’s southeast corner.

This photograph of the painting "Men in Progress" was taken in the Oval Office on February 27, 1957 during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration. "Men in Progress" was painted by Christian Schussele in 1862 and was loaned to the White House by the National Portrait Gallery. Before 1909, the president's office was located in the Executive Mansion. During the William H. Taft administration, the West Wing doubled in size from the 1902 Theodore Roosevelt renovation and included a presidential oval office. In 1934, during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, the West Wing was expanded and renovated, with the Oval Office relocated to the West Wing’s southeast corner.

This photograph of the Oval Office was taken on February 27, 1957 during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration. Before 1909, the president's office was located in the Executive Mansion. During the William H. Taft administration, the West Wing doubled in size from the 1902 Theodore Roosevelt renovation and included a presidential oval office. In 1934, during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, the West Wing was expanded and renovated, with the Oval Office relocated to the West Wing’s southeast corner.

This black and white photograph by Mathew Brady is of the Southern Plains delegation and was taken in the White House Conservatory on March 27, 1863. The delegates in the first row are, left to right: War Bonnet, Standing in the Water, and Lean Bear of the Cheyenne, and Yellow Wolf of the Kiowa. Yellow Wolf is wearing the Thomas Jefferson peace medal. President Abraham Lincoln’s secretary, John George Nicolay, stands in the center of the back row, while the interpreter John Smith stands at the left. First Lady Mary Lincoln possibly stands in the back at the far right, but no contemporary evidence confirms this.

This photograph is of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, center, posing for a photograph in the Oval Office circa 1953 to 1961. To left is President Eisenhower's valet, John A. Moaney, who held the position through Eisenhower's two terms in office. The man on the right is unidentified.

This photograph of Hassel R. Adams, left, and Robert M. Redmond, right, with the Kennedy family dogs was taken by Robert L. Knudsen on June 20, 1961. Adams is holding Charlie, a Welsh terrier, and Redmond is holding Pushinka, a recent gift from Soviet Premier Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev to President John F. Kennedy. Redmond worked as a gardener from 1923 to 1963 and Adams was also on the gardens and grounds team. The group is photographed in White House press secretary Pierre Salinger's office in the West Wing.

This photograph of Samuel "Sam" M. Biggs mowing the lawn outside the West Wing was taken on January 27, 1937. Biggs worked at the White House circa 1929 to 1937. Over the course of his career at the White House he worked as a laborer, yardman, and gardener.

This photograph of President Harry S. Truman with John W. Mays, right, and Samuel C. Jackson, left, was taken by Harris & Ewing on March 4, 1950. President Truman is captured celebrating Mays and Jackson for their 41 years of working at the White House. Both men began working on March 4, 1909. Mays, who held many roles in the White House including doorkeeper, messenger, and barber, would continue to work at the White House until 1953. Jackson, a doorman, messenger, and custodian over the course of his career, retired from the White House in 1951. Truman presented Mays and Jackson with autographed dollar bills to honor their milestone.

This photograph is of President Bill Clinton receiving a briefing in the Situation Room from Amb. Richard C. Holbrooke, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, Secretary of Defense William James Perry, Vice President Al Gore, chief of staff Leon E. Panetta, Office of Management and Budget director Alice M. Rivlin, and others on February 20, 1996.

This photograph of the Situation Room, then known as the West Wing Conference Room, was taken by Robert Knudsen on February 7, 1962 during the John F. Kennedy administration.

This photograph is of President Lyndon B. Johnson, National Security Advisor Walt Whitman Rostow, and others looking at a relief map of the Khe Sanh, Vietnam. From left to right are White House press secretary George Christian, President Johnson, Gen. Robert N. Ginsburgh, and Rostow. It was taken in the Situation Room by Yoichi R. Okamoto on February 15, 1968.

This photograph of White House switchboard operators was taken in June 1975 by Len Lahman during the Gerald R. Ford administration. The operators worked in the Old Executive Office Building, which was rededicated as the Eisenhower Executive Office Building by President George W. Bush in 2002. The ten-position Western Electric switchboard was installed in 1963. Switchboard operators answered thousands of calls every day.