From the Archives: Meet the Presidential Moms - pics
From the Archives: Meet the Presidential Moms
Jeannie Chen
May 11, 2012
11:22 AM EDT
Behind every President is the mother who raised him. In honor of Mother’s Day (which is this Sunday, May 13) our colleagues at the National Archives put together a gallery of Presidents and their moms, selected from the holdings of the 13 Presidential Libraries.
Hulda Minthorn Hoover, mother of Herbert Hoover. Circa 1870.
Sara Delano Roosevelt with 5 year old Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1887.
President Truman and his mother, Mary Ellen Truman, disembarking on an airplane during Martha Ellen Truman's first visit to Washington in 1945.
President John F. Kennedy applauds his mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, during the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation Awards Dinner. December 6, 1962.
Miss Lillian Carter pays a brief call on her son, President Jimmy Carter, after her return trip from India. February 17, 1977.
Family Portrait of Bill Clinton with his mother Virginia and his half brother Roger Clinton. 1959.
Barack Obama with his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham.
more pictures at...
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/05/11/archives-meet-presidential-moms