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 is of Army Signal Corps Officer Al Cornelius with a European war map in the White House Map Room circa 1943. The Map Room is located on the Ground Floor of the Executive Mansion and got its name during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration when President 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 taken by Pete Souza, President Barack Obama and his national security team sit in the Situation Room to monitor a military raid lead by SEAL Team Six on the compound housing Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011. The group assembled in one of the several conference rooms that comprises the Situation Room, watching the raid live as it took place in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The military raid resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. Seated in this photograph from left to right are: Vice President Joseph R. Biden; President Obama; Brig. Gen. Marshall B. Webb; Denis R. McDonough, deputy national security advisor; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; and Secretary of Defense Robert Michael Gates. Standing behind them, from left right, are: Adm. Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; national security advisor Thomas E. Donilon; chief of staff Wiliam M. Daley; Antony J. Blinken, national security advisor to the vice president; Audrey Tomason, director for counterterrorism; John O. Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism; and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper. A classified document on the table in front of Secretary Clinton has been obscured for security reasons.

This photograph in the Situation Room was taken on April 15, 1986. President Ronald Reagan meets for a briefing on the U.S. bombing of Libya with the National Security Council staff.