“Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President” focuses on the role popular music played when the former president ran for the White House……. […]

President James Carter, 1981 93 year old President James Carter was unable to attend the funeral of First Lady Barbara Bush last week, because he and his wife, Rosalynn, were… […]

President Lyndon Johnson, 1963 On this day, July 30, in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law in the United States to provide health insurance to people age… […]

Nelson Mandela, 1990 On this day, May 10, in 1994, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was sworn in as the first black president of South Africa. Mandela visited Canada three times, and… […]

President Harry Truman, 1948 Seventy-one years ago on October 5, President Harry Truman gave the first ever televised presidential address from the White House. There were fewer than 50,000 television… […]

President Sukarno, 1956 Indonesia’s first President, Sukarno, died on this day, June 21, in 1970. He served as president from 1945 to 1967. Sukarno was the leader of the Indonesian… […]

…while he was President but not during any of his other political tenures as senator or governor. Carter is currently the earliest-serving living former U.S. President. See more Jimmy Carter…. […]

…completed in the 1870s. On October 31, 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a presidential proclamation changing the holiday to the next to last Thursday in November, for business reasons…. […]

…in our Sittings database returns all of them, from a 1936 sitting with Dr. Karl T. Compton, President, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, to Mr. Alonzo L. McDonald, President, Bendix Corporation,… […]

…search in our Sittings database returns all of them, from a 1936 sitting with Dr. Karl T. Compton, President, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, to Mr. Alonzo L. McDonald, President, Bendix… […]

…was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. He had previously served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963 under President John F…. […]

Robert McNamara, 1962 On this day, November 29, in 1967, Robert S. McNamara announced that he would resign as Secretary of Defense and become president of the World Bank, where… […]

…his post the following year. Reagan was photographed on three occasions: as governor, president-elect, and president. See more Ronald Reagan. See more Mikhail Gorbachev. Read about the Cold War (Wikipedia)…. […]

Earl Warren, 1955 On this day, November 29, in 1963, one week after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot, President Lyndon B. Johnson established the Warren Commission. Leading the… […]

President-Elect Richard Nixon and Mrs. Nixon, January 1969 On this day, January 4, in 1974, President Richard Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents that had been subpoenaed… […]

Lyndon Johnson, 1963 On this day, January 22, in 1973, former US President Lyndon Baines Johnson died of a heart attack at the age of 64. Johnson served as the… […]

Martin Luther King, 1962 Martin Luther King was assassinated on this day, April 4, in 1968. President Lyndon B. Johnson declared April 7 a national day of mourning for the… […]

…President before Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office. Karsh photographed him as Senator Harry S. Truman, Missouri, for LIFE Magazine in 1944, and again in 1948 as President, for Collier’s…. […]

Bill Clinton, 1993 The 42nd president of the United States, Bill Clinton, was born on this day, August 19, in 1946. By his own account, Clinton was inspired to enter… […]

…had previously served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963 under President John F. Kennedy. Johnson’s presidency began following the assassination of President Kennedy. Johnson’s domestic policy was… […]

…lawyer who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first American President to pay an official… […]

…President on the National Mall. This is the header for their weekly newsletter. Karsh photographed Eisenhower four times, both when he was a general and as President. Learn more here…. […]

…1974, and was photographed by Karsh as president-elect in 1969 (as well as Senator, in 1952, and Vice President, in 1957). After his resignation, he was issued a pardon by… […]

…with communism. After Lyndon B. Johnson was elected president in 1964, the stage was set for the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. Johnson’s plan was not without opposition,… […]

Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan), Mackenzie King, Franklin Roosevelt and son, James Roosevelt, 1936 On this day, November 5, in 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was re-elected President of the United States… […]

…showing Karsh’s visit to the White House to photograph the President in January, 1982, giving us a behind-the-scenes look at the work that went into producing these photographs. Ronald Reagan,… […]

…lives of children born with anoxemia or ‘blue baby syndrome.’ In 1965, Dr. Helen Taussig was the first woman to become the president of the American Heart Association. We understand… […]

George H. W. Bush, 1982 George Herbert Walker Bush has died. Bush served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. He had served as the… […]

…as President-Elect. See contact sheets showing Karsh’s visit to the White House to photograph the President in January, 1982. Yousuf and Estrellita Karsh enjoying a joke with President Reagan, 1982… […]

Lyndon Johnson, 1963 On this day, July 2, in 1964, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. The law ended segregation in public places and… […]

Ronald Reagan, 1982 March 30, 2020, marks the 29th anniversary of the assassination attempt on US President Ronald Reagan. His Vice President at the time was George H.W. Bush, and… […]

John F. Kennedy, 1957 On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy federalized National Guard troops and deployed them to the University of Alabama to force its desegregation. The next… […]

Lyndon Johnson, 1963 On July 30, 1965, US President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law. Medicare now covers tens of millions of Americans. Johnson gave the first two Medicare… […]

Cesar Chavez, 1991 In redecorating the Oval Office, newly-elected President Biden placed a bust of labor icon Cesar Chavez behind the Resolute Desk. Chavez (1927-1993) co-founded the National Farm Workers… […]

Fidel Castro, 1971 On February 24, 2008, after nearly 50 years in power, Fidel Castro retired as President of Cuba. He served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to… […]

Corazon Aquino, 1989 Corazon “Cory” Aquino was a Filipino politician who served as the 11th President of the Philippines, becoming the first woman to hold that office. She was the… […]

…blurb: As president, Carter was not merely an outsider, but an outlier. He was the only president in a century to grow up in the heart of the Deep South,… […]

Franklin Roosevelt, Mackenzie King, Lord Tweedsmuir, August 14, 1936 On this day, November 3, in 1936, Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected as president of the United States. Earlier that year… […]

Corazon Aquino, 1989 Corazon “Cory” Aquino was a Filipino politician who served as the 11th President of the Philippines, becoming the first woman to hold that office. Aquino took office… […]

Corazon Aquino, 1989 Corazon Aquino was a Filipino politician who served as the 11th president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. She was the most prominent figure of the… […]

“Descendant of tribal royalty, prisoner, president, Nobel laureate – Nelson Mandela was all these, yet he was a dignified and humble man. His struggle against apartheid inspired hope; his victory… […]

John F. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917. The 35th President of the United States, 1961-1963, was the youngest man elected to the office. The JFK Library is commemorating… […]

This LIFE magazine cover from August, 1961, featured a Karsh portrait of the 35th President of the United States. Karsh made this photograph of John F. Kennedy in 1960, when… […]

…Science Foundation passed through Congress and was signed into law by President Truman. The Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the… […]

John F. Kennedy, 1960 On this day, November 8, in 1960, John F. Kennedy became the youngest man ever to be elected president of the United States. Karsh photographed a… […]

Charles de Gaulle, 1944 On this day, December 21, in 1958, Charles de Gaulle was elected as the first president of the Fifth Republic of France. He was previously the… […]

…of President Richard Nixon. Graham features in Steven Spielberg’s latest movie, “The Post”. “With help from editor Ben Bradlee, Graham races to catch up with The New York Times to… […]

Reverend Billy Graham, 1972 American evangelical Christian William Franklin Graham Jr. has died. Graham was a spiritual adviser to American presidents and provided spiritual counsel for every president from Harry… […]

…Clare Boothe Luce. Luce was a former Congresswoman and was the first woman appointed as a U.S. ambassador to a major power when President Eisenhower appointed her as U.S. Ambassador… […]

…photographed George H. W. Bush, Vice President of the United States at the time. Also present, and to be photographed, was Bush’s dear friend and colleague, James Baker, the White… […]

President Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon, 1969 Richard Nixon was born on this day, January 9, 1913. This double portrait was made and published in January 1969 as Nixon… […]

…an honor. President Ronald Reagan originally opposed the holiday, citing cost concerns. When asked to comment on Helms’ accusations that King was a communist, the president said “We’ll know in… […]

…to the Canadian parliament. Mandela was vice-president of the African National Congress (ANC) at the time, and he addressed a joint session of the House of Commons and the Senate,… […]

Eleanor Roosevelt, 1944 Eleanor Roosevelt was an American diplomat and activist who served as the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 during her husband President Franklin… […]

General George C. Marshall, 1950 On this day, April 3, in 1948, President Harry Truman signed the Marshall Plan, named after General George C. Marshall, Secretary of State, who advocated… […]

…composed his work for harp and string orchestra “Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus” on commission. David Sarnoff, then president of RCA, chose to introduce television to the mass public… […]

Thurgood Marshall, 1957 President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court on this day, in 1967. On August 30, 1967, after a… […]

Boris Yeltsin, 1992 Boris Yeltsin became the first President of the Russian Federation on this day, July 10, in 1991. He would lead from 1991 to 1999, when he resigned… […]

…ordered the President to release the tapes to the special prosecutor. On July 30, 1974, Nixon complied with the order and released the subpoenaed tapes to the public. Karsh photographed… […]

Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963 On August 6, in 1965, US President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing African Americans the right to vote. The bill made it… […]

…as president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) from 1920 to 1960. A major player in the history of coal mining, he was the driving force behind the… […]

Jacques Chirac, 1981 Jacques Chirac, former French president, has died. M. Chirac was elected to two consecutive terms as president, beginning in 1995, having already served as prime minister. Karsh… […]

…84, but in 1993 he traveled to the White House to photograph the new president and new First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in 1993. And Clinton installed Karsh’s “Roaring Lion”… […]

…president to Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961, and as the 37th president from 1969 until 1974. Karsh photographed a total of twelve US Presidents, from Hoover to Clinton…. […]

Lord Tweedsmuir, Mackenzie King, Franklin Roosevelt, James Roosevelt, 1936 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on this day, January 30, in 1882. FDR was the first American President to pay an… […]

Hosni Mubarak, 1983 Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak was an Egyptian military and political leader who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011. He was photographed… […]

John F. Kennedy, 1960 John F. Kennedy was born on this day, May 29, in 1917. He was 35th President of the United States from 1961 to 1963 – the… […]

…Roosevelt’s “New Deal” as Johnson prepares to announce a massive boost to public spending.* In 1936 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first American President to pay an official visit to… […]

Jacqueline Kennedy, 1957 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was born on this day, July 28, in 1929. She was First Lady of the United States as the wife of President John F…. […]

Herbert Hoover, 1948 Herbert Hoover was an American engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. Hoover was born on… […]

Charles Evans Hughes, 1944 On this day, October 13, in 1932, President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes laid the cornerstone for the U.S. Supreme Court building in… […]

Nelson Mandela, 1990 On October 16, in 1993, Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk were jointly named Nobel Peace Prize winners. De Klerk served as State President of South Africa… […]

…photograph the new president, Bill Clinton, and Hillary, in 1993. When he moved in to his new residence, President Clinton had hung Karsh’s “Roaring Lion” Churchill portrait. See more Clintons…. […]

…until his assassination in 1968. He was previously the 64th U.S. Attorney General from 1961 to 1964, serving under his older brother, President John F. Kennedy and his successor, President… […]

Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, 1981 Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the French politician who served as President of France, has died. He was photographed by Karsh in 1981, for Paris Match. See a… […]

President Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon, 1969 American magazine Newsweek launched on February 17, in 1933. Karsh photographed several people for the weekly publication. The Sitters include British Prime… […]

…Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, serving as both prime minister (1944–1963), president (later President for life) (1953–1980), and marshal of Yugoslavia, the highest rank of the Yugoslav People’s Army.  … […]

…first person to walk on the Moon. Along with Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon, and President Jimmy Carter… […]

Omar Bradley, 1950 General Omar Bradley was a senior officer of the United States Army during and after World War II. On August 11, 1949, President Harry S. Truman appointed… […]

Eunice and Sargent Shriver, 1962 Eunice Kennedy Shriver died on this day, August 11, in 2009 (b. 1921). Shriver was the sister of President John F. Kennedy. She was a… […]

Bill and Hillary Clinton, 1993 On October 11, 1975, William Jefferson Clinton married Hillary Rodham. The 42nd President of the United States took office on January 20, 1993, and on… […]

…to the Canadian parliament. Mandela was vice-president of the African National Congress (ANC) at the time, and he addressed a joint session of the House of Commons and the Senate,… […]

Vincent Auriol, 1949 Vincent Auriol (1884-1966) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1947 to 1954. Karsh some prolific months in 1949 photographing people in the… […]

Thurgood Marshall, 1957 President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court on this day, in 1967. The Senate confirmed Marshall’s nomination by… […]

…States, and the 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations. He was born on this day, August 8, in 1908 (d. 1990). In 1961, President John F. Kennedy appointed… […]

John and Jacqueline Kennedy, 1957 Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy, the future 35th president of the United States, married Jacqueline Bouvier on this day, September 12, in 1953. Seven years… […]

John F. Kennedy, 1960 On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. Karsh had photographed… […]

…20th century’s most sough-after portrait photographer. Mr. Karsh photographed every pop and American president during his lifetime – from Hoover to Clinton; and legions of prominent global citizens including Albert… […]

…hotel a prestigious tenant. “Château Laurier was commissioned by Grand Trunk Railway president Charles Melville Hays, and was constructed for $2 million, between 1909 and 1912 in tandem with Ottawa’s… […]

…to the President, Reagan looked at the picture and said, “Oh, you know, Mr. Karsh has photographed me, too.” Yousuf Karsh with Robbie and Kerri Whitaker, the first children to… […]

…Secretary-General post, and is one of one of only four people to be awarded a posthumous Nobel Prize. United States President John F. Kennedy called Hammarskjold “the greatest statesman of… […]

André Malraux, 1954 French novelist and art theorist André Malraux was born on this day, November 3, in 1901. Malraux was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as Minister of… […]

…See Karsh “On Assignment“. He photographed Ford’s grandson, Henry Ford II, for LIFE Magazine in 1946, and again in 1968. Ford II was president of the Ford Motor Company from… […]

…record of the names of the subjects. We suggest contacting our colleagues at the Library and Archives for more information. Mr. & Mrs. C. L. Burton, President of the Robert… […]

…website for the name Folsom and found ‘Frank M. Folsom, Esq., President, Radio Corporation of America, RCA.’ An image search on Google confirmed the subject of this portrait is indeed… […]

…American or otherwise, to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 7, 1955. At Eleanor Roosevelt’s behest, President Roosevelt and Walter White, then-executive secretary of the… […]

…President and CEO of Canada Post, unveiled the stamp during a ceremony at Rideau Hall. At 25, Elizabeth became Queen when her father, King George VI, died in the winter… […]

…poliomyelitis.” – National Institutes of Health. President Franklin Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio in 1921 at the age of 39 and was left paralyzed from the waist down. He helped… […]

…segregation in public schools. He was later appointed to chair what became known as the Warren Commission, which was formed to investigate the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy…. […]

…American dime. (Wikipedia) Read about Dr. Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine sponsored by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Roosevelt became 32nd president of the United States in 1933…. […]

…House on December 29, 1941, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Roosevelt aide Harry Hopkins. (Wikipedia). Karsh photographed several Secretaries General and others with roles at… […]

…the first black vice president of a major American corporation, Chock full o’Nuts. In the 1960s, he helped establish the Freedom National Bank, an African-American-owned financial institution based in Harlem,… […]

…is unconstitutional. “Chief Justice Earl Warren, nominated to the Supreme Court by President Eisenhower, echoed Douglas’s concerns in a 1954 speech to the American Bar Association, proclaiming that “Our American… […]

…❤ NY. Among other achievements he also co-founded New York Magazine, and was the first graphic designer to be given the National Medal of the Arts award from President Barack… […]

…Karsh in 1950, the year legislation to create the National Science Foundation passed through Congress and was signed into law by President Truman. The Foundation is a United States government… […]

…Professor and President of the Texas Photographic Society, Steve Goff, who included two original photographs by Yousuf Karsh: George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Hemingway. “Photography can be seen as a… […]

…12, 1945, during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s four terms in office, making her the longest-serving. Following her husband’s death in 1945, Roosevelt remained active in politics for the… […]

…self and non-self.” He was photographed in 1988 during his tenure as president of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and is one of several Nobel Prize winners in our archives…. […]

…wounded in World War I, he became: President, National Research Council in 1933; Commander, First Canadian Army in 1939; and, Minister of National Defense in 1944. Karsh wrote: The founder… […]

…in “colossal danger” due to the threat from nuclear weapons. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was photographed as “President, USSR (Secretary General of the Soviet Communist Party and Chairman of the Supreme… […]

…list of 100 Women of the Year: For 72 years, TIME named a Man of the Year. With a few exceptions, it was almost always a man, usually a President… […]

…a leading conservative in later life and was well known for her anti-communism. In her youth, she briefly aligned herself with the liberalism of President Franklin Roosevelt as a protégé… […]

…Thatcher. Both were also photographed by Karsh prior to their premierships: Wilson as President of the Board of Trade in 1949, and Thatcher as Leader of the Opposition in 1976…. […]

…observation since cited by many including President Kennedy, journalist Edward R. Murrow said that during the Second World War, Winston Churchill “mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.”… […]

…to the neither-revile-him-nor-revere-him school of Kissingerology.” Read the article. Kissinger was Special Advisor for National Security for the President of the United States when he was photographed by Karsh in… […]

…to Henry Schachte’s great granddaughter for sharing this portrait with us. Mr. Schachte joined the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in 1963, and was its president in 1972 and 1973…. […]

…if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.” Thankfully, he lived, and after the end of apartheid went on to serve as President of… […]

…to geodesic spheres. Fuller was the second World President of Mensa from 1974 to 1983. Fuller’s prophetic 1962 book Education Automation was “a prescient vision for online education decades before… […]

…19 years, from 1962 to 1981. A poll taken in 1972 named him “the most trusted man in America” – more so than the president at that time, Richard Nixon…. […]

…from behind (see: Pablo Casals), and the collection of smokers, among which some favorites are Bertrand Russell, Tennessee Williams, President Tito, and Dr. Alfred Blalock. See more about Steichen’s Sittings…. […]

Thurgood Marshall, 1957 Thurgood Marshall was officially sworn in to the nation’s highest court at the opening ceremony of the Supreme Court term on October 2, 1967. President Johnson nominated… […]

…played a major role in numerous peacekeeping operations sponsored by the UN. In 1963, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President John F. Kennedy. Read more (Wikipedia)… […]

Paul Desmarais, 1973 Canadian financier and philanthropist Paul Desmarais was born on this day, January 4, in 1927. Four Canadian prime ministers, a former French president and five Quebec premiers… […]

Martin Luther King, 1962 Today marks the 35th Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday in the United States. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established in 1983 when President Ronald… […]

…including contralto Marian Anderson; first Governor of the Bank of Canada, Graham Towers; President Truman; and several businessmen for J. Walter Thompson advertising (not least the wonderfully-named Cloud Wampler Esq.)… […]

…this day, April 19, 2021 (b. 1876). Adenauer was a leading politician in the Weimar Republic, serving as Mayor of Cologne (1917–1933) and as president of the Prussian State Council… […]

Betty Ford, 1977 Newly added to the website are two portraits of Betty Ford. They were made during a Sitting with her husband, President Gerald Ford, right at the end… […]

…by President Truman. The Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering; Bush was chiefly responsible… […]

…as “Office Co-ordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Commerce Dept. Washington, D.C.” Rockefeller served as the 41st vice president of the United States under Gerald Ford, from December 1974 to January 1977;… […]

…when Harold Wilson was Prime Minister – we just added this portrait of him to the website. See a portrait of Wilson from 1949 when he was President of the… […]