Families in the White House

First Moving Day: Relations: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker

“I enjoy decorating. So I get to get this whole new room and do whatever I want!” Malia (Obama), who is ten, told a reporter, over the summer, and, so, some previous tenants agreed to share a few tips. “The challenge is to make it your home,” Luci Baines Johnson said. “It’s the people’s house, and it’s very much a museum. And, in fact, our ‘living room’ was the West Hall. It didn’t even have a door on it! Which is very symbolically appropriate, because your life is so open to the world.”