Roosevelt Room, Kennedy Administration
This photograph is of the Roosevelt Room during the John F. Kennedy administration. The room is furnished with a table used in the Family Dining Room along with a bookcase. Displayed on the wall is the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Wilson and a stuffed sailfish President Kennedy caught in 1953. The Roosevelt Room is a conference room located across the hall from the Oval Office and acts as an all-purpose room for meetings, receptions, and announcements by presidents and their staff. During the Kennedy administration it was called the Fish Room, or West Wing Conference Room. It was renamed in 1969, when President Richard M. Nixon dedicated the room to Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt for their contributions to the construction of the West Wing.
- Photographer
- Bates Littlehales
- Date of Work
- April 1962
- Type
- Photograph
- Credit
- White House Historical Association
