First Ladies

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Table Setting for the State Dinner For Chinese President Xi Jinping

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Madame Peng Liyuan with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama before a State Dinner

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First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt with Social Secretary Edith Benham Helm

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President and Mrs. Bush with President Hu Jintao and Madame Liu Yongqing

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President and Mrs. Obama say Goodbye to President Hu Jintao

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History of China State Visits to the White House

On January 29, 1979, President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter received Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping and his wife, Madame Zhuo Lin, for an official visit to Washington D.C. The occasion marked the highest-ranking Chinese visitor to the White House since Madame Chiang Kai-shek visited in 1943.

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Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping Arrival Ceremony

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China State Dinners: President and First Lady Obama welcome the President of China to the White House

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China State Dinners: President and Mrs. Reagan with President Li Xiannian and Madame Lin Jiamei of China