State Dining Room
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Oct 17, 2026
What Happened to Dinner Parties? (Can We Save Them?)
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22:55John MoellerGUEST
... uh, all those hot four courses, you know? [laughs] And then the entree was hot, and then we have a salad course, and then dessert.
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23:01John MoellerGUEST
Yeah, the State Dining Room holds only 130 people, so they had two huge tents that were put up on the south grounds of the White House, and this was in c- uh, 1999.
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23:10John MoellerGUEST
It was in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of NATO.
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23:14John MoellerGUEST
We had 950 people at that dinner that night.
The O'Reilly Update, October 12, 2026
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12:17Bill O'ReillyHOST
On October 12th, TR unveiled his proposal, along with a new name.
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12:23Bill O'ReillyHOST
He ordered all government documents, stationery, and letters originating from the mansion bear the words, "The White House, Washington, DC." Roosevelt then had a prayer taken from a letter sent by John Adams to his wife engraved in the mantel of the State Dining Room.
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12:46Bill O'ReillyHOST
The prayer says, "I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it.
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12:58Bill O'ReillyHOST
May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof." And here is something else you might not know.
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The First Ladies Who Secretly Ran America: Untold Stories of Power, Influence, and Hidden History
Oct 10 · 1 Mention
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44:04speaker_0UNKNOWN
She turned chaos into order, informality into institution, and in doing so, she set a standard that every first lady after her had to meet.
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44:15speaker_0UNKNOWN
Not a bad legacy for someone who just wanted to keep her children from riding ponies through the State Dining Room.
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44:21speaker_0UNKNOWN
Ellen Wilson, the social justice advocate.
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44:25speaker_0UNKNOWN
Ellen Axon Wilson is one of those first ladies who gets forgotten, which is unfortunate because she was doing important work before it was politically convenient or even particularly popular.
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21 Mind-Blowing and Unusual Facts About Every U.S. President: From Whiskey Distilleries to Secret Surgeries in the White House
Oct 9 · 1 Mention
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6:55speaker_0UNKNOWN
May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof." It was a private line meant for his wife, not for history.
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7:04speaker_0UNKNOWN
But Franklin D. Roosevelt loved it so much that he had it carved into the mantel of the State Dining Room in 1945, where it remains.
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A blessing written by candlelight in an unfinished room turned into marble instruction for every president who would follow.
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Adams couldn't have known his wish would be chiseled into permanence, which is maybe the best kind of prayer.
151: Could the hostages have come home sooner? With Brett McGurk
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31:52Brett McGurkGUEST
But in the moment, you're also thinking about how worse it can get, and that got into the, uh, Hezbollah front and, and Iran and what they knew.
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32:04Brett McGurkGUEST
And w- when, when Biden eventually went out and spoke publicly, I think it was in the East Room or the State Dining Room, I was standing just to his side.
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32:15Brett McGurkGUEST
Uh, I mean, he gave a very firm, you know, "We're gonna stand with Israel," period.
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32:19Brett McGurkGUEST
I think we know more now.
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Christmas at the White House: History, First Lady Traditions, and Iconic Holiday Stories Revealed
Oct 6 · 4 Mentions
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23:54speaker_0NARRATOR
But you can't really party when your son has just died and your country is engaged in the bloodiest war in its history.
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23:59speaker_0NARRATOR
The Christmas dinner would be served in the State Dining Room, probably roasted turkey or goose, potatoes, vegetables from the White House garden, some kind of pie.
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24:11speaker_0NARRATOR
The Lincolns would sit at that long table, maybe with a few close friends or family members, and try to have a normal meal.
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24:18speaker_0NARRATOR
Try to pretend everything wasn't falling apart.
44 MINS LATER
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68:20speaker_0NARRATOR
I decorated the White House for Christmas in 2006.
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68:24speaker_0NARRATOR
I hung ornaments in the East Room.
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68:27speaker_0NARRATOR
I arranged garland on the mantel in the State Dining Room.
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68:31speaker_0NARRATOR
I got to be part of making magic.
Can MAGA lose MAHA? (And: LOL Eric Schmitt!) with Brad Woodhouse
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48:52Rob FlahertyHOST
It was in the, the...
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48:53Rob FlahertyHOST
Was it the State? No, it wasn't the State Dining Room.
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48:54Rob FlahertyHOST
It was the East Room.
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48:55Rob FlahertyHOST
It was in the East Room, not the East Wing.
CLIMATE HUSHING: Left Suddenly Went Quiet on "Climate Crisis"
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38:22Jennifer CornGUEST
A lot of the times the faith leaders would like a memento and to have that photo, and then sometimes there's something that we're announcing, and so he has the cameras in there.
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38:30Jennifer CornGUEST
But we have prayer in the Roosevelt Room, in the Oval Office, in the State Dining Room, in the East Room, in the EEOB, all the time.
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38:37RoseHOST
That's just something we do.
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38:38RoseHOST
I love that.
Understanding Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to the US
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1:12Xu QingduoHOST
After that, the two leaders also held small group talks and a broader bilateral discussion and attended a state banquet.
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1:20Xu QingduoHOST
So they spent about six hours together across different settings, you know, from the Oval Office to the Cabinet Room and the State Dining Room.
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1:28Xu QingduoHOST
What does this unusually high profile reception tell us about the state of relationship between the two countries?
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1:35Wu XinboGUEST
Well, to some extent, the visit by President Xi to the U.S. is the most important diplomatic achievement for President Trump before the midterm election.
Episode 5687: Are We Going To Witness A Blue Tsunami
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3:29Stephen K. BannonHOST
Uh, and this is where I think the press will ...
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3:30Stephen K. BannonHOST
I believe they may come in, they're not gonna ask questions to do it in the, in the Oval, and then later the bigger meeting, uh, will take place, um, in that state- I think in the State Dining Room.
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3:40Stephen K. BannonHOST
I think the East Room's gonna be the, the First Lady.
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3:43Stephen K. BannonHOST
Thoughts overall, not just of this, Caroline, you've been out throughout the country and you've got your, your, um, your hand on the pulse of both the donors and the grassroots.
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