Photos: Scenes from the Rose Garden ... from Kennedy to Trump
One of the most famous gardens in America is getting a face-lift.
Melania Trump on Monday announced details of a plan already underway to spruce up the White House Rose Garden, an iconic outdoor space famous for its proximity to the Oval Office.
The current garden design has been around since the Kennedy years. Mrs. Trump said the plan will return the Rose Garden to its original 1962 footprint.
President John F. Kennedy was so inspired by the gardens he saw during a 1961 state visit to France, and other stops in Europe, that he enlisted his friend Rachel Lambert Mellon to design the outdoor space by the Oval Office.
Scenes from the Rose Garden, from Kennedy to Trump:
President John F. Kennedy, 1961
President John Kennedy walks toward the microphones on the White House portico outside his office on July 13, 1961 in Washington to address a group of 1,827 teenagers from 51 countries, exchange students who have been in the United States the past year. The students jammed the Rose Garden. Some were pushed to the ground in a surge to get closer to the President.
Kennedy, 1961
President John Kennedy talks to Tomah, Wisc., High School seniors in the Rose Garden at the White House, June 7, 1961. Kennedy pays off a promise he made to them 16 months ago when campaigning in their home town. Last fall, one of first questions from students after Kennedy spoke in their auditorium was "can we come and see you in Washington next year?" He agreed and one student put it in writing for Kennedy to sign. They brought the "agreement" with them today. (AP Photo/Henry Burroughs)
President Lyndon Johnson, 1968
President Lyndon Johnson took time from his busy schedule, to feed his nine-month-old grandson, Lyn Nugent, in the White House Rose Garden, March 29, 1968 in Washington. The food was cream topped gelatin and cookies. Waiting and hoping for a share is Yuki, the President's constant companion. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)
President Richard Nixon, 1971
The former Tricia Nixon and her husband Edward Finch Cox, walk from the altar at the White House Rose Garden after their marriage, June 12, 1971. Obscured by the bride and groom are matron of honor Julie Nixon Eisenhower and best man Howard E. Cox Jr. In the background is the Rev. Dr. Edward G. Latch, chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, who performed the wedding. (AP Photo)
Nixon, 1971
U.S. President Richard M. Nixon flashes an "okay" sign as he and first lady Pat Nixon leave the Rose Garden ceremony that saw their daughter Tricia marry Edward Finch Cox in Washington, D.C., Saturday, June 12, 1971. In the background are the parents of the groom, Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Cox. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)
President Gerald Ford, 1974
President Ford holds a White House Rose Garden news conference Oct. 9, 1974, the day after disclosing his anti-inflation program. The Chief Executive is wearing one of his WIN-Whip Inflation Now-buttons on his lapel. (AP Photo)
President Jimmy Carter, 1977
President Jimmy Carter follows his wife, Rosalynn, out of the White House and into the Rose Garden, May 19, 1977. Mrs. Carter was en route to a meeting of Former Members of Congress Auxiliary in the garden while the president was going to his office in the West Wing and on to a meeting with congressional leaders in the State Dining Room. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma)
Carter, 1980
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, left, and President Jimmy Carter have a lunch in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on April 8, 1980. Sadat is meeting with Carter trying to break through the stalled peace talks with Israel. (AP Photo)
President Ronald Reagan, 1981
President Ronald Reagan sits beside Supreme Court nominee Sandra O’Connor as they pose for photographers in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, July 16, 1981. The President said he is confident Mrs. O’Connor will be confirmed as the first woman Supreme Court justice. (AP Photo)
Reagan, 1985
President Ronald Reagan is pulled along by his pet dog "Lucky" while he and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher take a stroll in the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 1985 in Washington. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma)
Reagan, 1986
President Reagan delivers the commencement speech to the John A. Holmes High School senior class from Edenton, N.C., on Tuesday, May 13, 1986 in Washington in the Rose Garden of the White House. Reagan also took questions from the group after the speech. (AP Photo/Scott Stewart)
President George H.W. Bush, 1989
President George H.W. Bush walks with his grandson, George P. Bush, through the Rose Garden of the White House, Washington on Sunday, Jan. 22, 1989 prior to attending church. Bush was returning to the residence, after spending the morning in the Oval Office. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
Bush, 1992
Undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau meets with President George H.W. Bush in the Rose Garden of the White House on Friday, April 24, 1992 in Washington. Cousteau urged the President to attend the upcoming Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander)
President Bill Clinton, 1993
President Bill Clinton applauds as Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg prepares to speak in the Rose Garden of the White House, June 15, 1993 after the president announced he would nominate Ginsburg to the Supreme Court. Ginsburg, 60, a federal appeals judge, will fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Justice Byron White. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
Clinton, 1993
President Bill Clinton talks to a group of Boy Scouts in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on July 31, 1993, after addressing a group of tourists on his deficit-reduction plan. Clinton said the compromise emerging from Congress would reinvigorate the economy while costing most working families "less than a dime a day." (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander)
Clinton, 1994
Martin Luther King III, left, and Sen. Harris Wofford (D-Pa.), look on as President Bill Clinton signs the Martin Luther King Holiday and Service Act in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Aug. 23, 1994. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Clinton, 1995
President Clinton escorts Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto through the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on April 11, 1995. Bhutto came to the White House with a blunt message for President Clinton--her money or her planes. Pakistan has paid the United States $1.4 billion for F-16 fighter jets that have never been delivered because of concerns about Pakistan's acquisition of atomic weapons. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
President George W. Bush, 2006
President Bush speaks about the death of al-Qaida in Iraq's leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Thursday, June 8, 2006, in the Rose Garden at the White House. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Bush, 2007
President Bush speaks during a press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 3, 2007. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Bush, 2007
President Bush arrives in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 4, 2007 to attend a celebration of Cinco de Mayo celebration. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
2008
Roses bloom in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
President Barack Obama, 2010
Marine One, with President Barack Obama aboard, is framed by flowers in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 9, 2010, as it lands on the South Lawn as the president returned from a trip to the Czech Republic. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Obama, 2010
President Barack Obama is seen between the columns, as walks out of the Oval Office to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 26, 2010, deliver remarks on campaign finance reform. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Obama, 2012
President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron walk to their joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Obama, 2012
President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 29, 2012, to urge Congress to eliminate tax breaks for oil and gas companies. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Obama, 2016
Federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland, center, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, right, shakes hands with President Barack Obama as he is introduced as Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court during an announcement in the Rose Garden of the White House, in Washington, Wednesday, March 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
President Donald Trump, 2017
Frank Giaccio, 11, of Falls Church, Va., left, is encouraged by President Donald Trump, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017, while he mowed the lawn in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington. The 11-year-old, who wrote the president requesting to mow the lawn at the White House, was so focused on the job at hand the he didn't notice the president until he was right next to him. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Trump, 2017
President Donald Trump and Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien, right, shake hands together during a joint statement in the Rose Garden at the White House, Monday, Oct. 23, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Trump, 2019
Guests listen to music in the Rose Garden of the White House during a State Dinner with President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump for Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his wife Jenny Morrison at the White House, Friday, Sept. 20, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump, 2020
President Donald Trump departs after speaking about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, April 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)