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Black and white photograph depicting Jimmy Carter, Terence Cardinal Cooke and Ronald Reagan at the 1980 Alfred E. Smith Dinner, Grand Ballroom, Waldorf=Astoria Hotel.

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…

Black and white photograph depicting Conrad N. Hilton, Chairman of Hilton Hotels Corporation and Chairman and President of Hilton International Co., reviewing a plaque honoring President Herbert Hoover and his thirty-year residence at the Waldorf…

Black and white photograph of the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel on Election night, November 6, 1968.

Black and white photograph from the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner featuring Francis Cardinal Spellman, then Vice President Richard Nixon and Charles Silver. Photographed in the West Foyer, 1956.

Color photograph of then President George H.W. Bush sampling fruit and cheeses for brunch at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, September 23, 1991. According to former executive chef John Doherty: "Everybody made a big deal of him not liking broccoli but he…

Color photograph depicting Alabama Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant with then-Vice President Gerald Ford at the National Football Foundation Annual Awards Dinner in 1974. President Gerald Ford received the National Football Foundation's Gold Medal in 1972,…

Color picture postcard depicting Herbert Hoover in his Waldorf Towers apartment on his 84th birthday, August 10, 1958.