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Director of Sales and Marketing, Matthew Zolbe, is interviewed by Darren Everson of the Wall Street Journal online about the history of our historic presidential suite located in the Towers.

The Waldorf=Astoria’s Presidential Suite was explored by “Urban Gardner” Ralph Gardner in The Wall Street Journal (which had a circulation of 2,096,169 in February 2012). This article featured quotes by Jim Blauvelt and highlighted…

Invitation to view the Presidential Suite, which was redecorated for the sixth time in 1978. Although the rehabilitation project had been completed in late September, the press and social party did not take place until October in order to accommodate…

Black and white photograph depicting President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Pope Paul VI in the Presidential Suite during the Pope's visit to New York, October 4th 1965. Also pictured is First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson.

Pope Paul was visiting New York…

From left to right are Missy Kostovny (Events Manager), Kin Han (Director of Diplomatic Sales) First Lady Michelle Obama and Eric Long (General Manager) in the Towers of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, 2012.

From left to right are Diarmuid Dwyer (Hotel Manager), Oscar Herrera (Director of Security), President Barack Obama, Derrick Carlo (Director of Human Resources), Kin Han (Director of Diplomatic Sales), Briccio Pita (Director of Meeting & Banquet…

President George W Bush and President of El Salvador Elias Antonio Saca photographed in the Presidential Suite prior to their bi-lateral meeting on September 18, 2006. (Photo credit: The White House)

Black and white photograph depicting a wicker-backed rocking chair installed in the Presidential Suite by President John F. Kennedy, date unknown.