“Few First Ladies – and the name wasn’t yet commonly used – have so reveled in the White House or developed such a proprietary feeling about it. “Eight happy years I spent there – so happy!” Julia would reminisce. “It still seems as much like home to me as the old farm in Missouri, White Haven.”

“Few First Ladies – and the name wasn’t yet commonly used – have so reveled in the White House or developed such a proprietary feeling about it. “Eight happy years I spent there – so happy!” Julia would reminisce. “It still seems as much like home to me as the old farm in Missouri, White Haven.”

— Ron Chernow