Besieged by lawsuits that threatened to engulf almost everyone at the White House, Clinton assistants shunned paper or e-mail records of their daily deliberations. One told me that he would go down the hall to confer with his division chief face to face rather than discuss an issue on the telephone.

During Grover Cleveland's second term, in the 1890s, the White House deceived the public by dismissing allegations that surgeons had removed a cancerous growth from the President's mouth; a vulcanized-rubber prosthesis disguised the absence of much of Cleveland's upper left jaw and part of his palate.

Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show.

There's a big gap between 'Click the link to send an e-mail to your congressman' and 'Chain yourself to the White House.'

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.