John Adams: A Benediction for the Furute : The State Dining Room -- Thomas Jefferson: The Lewis & Clark Expedition : The President's Library -- James and Dolly Madison : The Burning of the White House : The Queen's Sitting Room, State Dining Room -- James Monroe: The Monroe Doctrine : The Oval Room -- Andrew Jackson: The Nullification Crisis : The East Room -- John Tyler: Ten Funerals and a Wedding : The East Room -- James K. Polk: Five Presidents, One War : The President's Office -- Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address : The Shop -- Ulysses S. Grant: The Secret Swearing In : The Red Room -- Rutherford Hayes: The Wired White House : The Telegraph Room -- William McKinley: The Spanish-American War : The War Room -- Theodore Roosevelt: The Dawn of the American Century : The West Wing -- Woodrow Wilson: The Secret Illness : The President's Bedroom -- Warren G. Harding: Scandals Galore : The Yellow Oval Room -- Calvin Coolidge: The Roaring Twenties : The Sky Parlor -- Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Fireside Chats : The Diplomatic Reception Room -- Harry Truman: "The Moon, the Stars, and All the Planets" : The Rebuilding of the White House -- John F. Kennedy: The Blood Red Carpet : The Oval Office -- Richard Nixon: The Enemy Within : The Briefing Room -- Ronald Reagan: Lights, Camera, Action : The Family Theater -- Barack Obama: The bin Laden Raid : The Situation Room -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.