How Teddy Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington’s dinner changed history

How Teddy Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington’s dinner changed history

In his new book, “Teddy and Booker T: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality,” bestselling author Brian Kilmeade writes of how Theodore Roosevelt invited intellectual and former slave Book T. Washington to dinner at the White House at the very beginning of his presidency. Roosevelt sought Washington’s counsel as he struggled … Read more

Here’s what Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, more presidents liked to eat

Here’s what Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, more presidents liked to eat

A state dinner at the White House is never simply a meal for the president and his hungry VIP guests. Rather, it’s a “forum for politics and entertainment at the highest level,” writes author Alex Prud’homme in “Dinner with the President: Food, Politics and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House,” (Knopf.) “The … Read more