In the Yellow Oval Room, recalling dinners on the Truman china On the Truman Balcony, Margaret sits where her father might have been found with a book. It was there that one of the legs of the piano broke through the floor, prompting structural engineers to evaluate the whole house and decide that it was only still standing “out of habit” and begin the complete gutting and reconstruction of the mansion. During the Truman administration, the Lincoln Bedroom became Margaret’s sitting room both before and after the reconstruction. Margaret sits atop the massive bed-rosewood and rosewood-paint-grained walnut-in the Lincoln Bedroom. Today, the dining room is used primarily for smaller formal dinners and working lunches. First families have traditionally dined in the Family Dining Room since about 1825 when President John Quincy Adams and First Lady Louisa Catherine Adams began to take their meals there. The Family Dining Room on the State Floor of The White House. On the Truman Balcony, the second-floor balcony of the Executive Residence of The White House, which overlooks the South Lawn Kitchen area of The White House Family Quarters In the Family Quarters of The White House Double doors on the west side of the room, with flags of the United States and of the presidency on either side, lead to the president and first lady’s bedrooms, private sitting room and dressing room.
The southwest window has a swing-sash door leading to the Truman Balcony. Three large windows on the south side of the room face the South Lawn and The Ellipse. The room is entered from the Center Hall on the north side of the room. Today the Yellow Oval Room is used for small receptions and for greeting heads of state immediately before a State Dinner.
First used as a drawing room in the John Adams administration, it has been used as a library, office, and family parlor. In the Yellow Oval Room, located on the south side of the second floor in The White House, the official residence of the president of the United States.
LOOK Magazine interviews Margaret Truman Daniel in The White House Family Quarters. Past Recipients of the Truman Book Award.
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