"A good line to borrow for the agents now selling some of the 372 condominiums on the upper floors of the newly reopened Waldorf Astoria Residences. What the Waldorf is marketing as the "First-Ever Presidential Library Amenity" is a private bar and club for residents designed by Jean-Louis Deniot that has pale gray and white couches, brassy accents, and built-ins that hold a library curated by the White House Historical Association."
"The privately funded nonprofit was founded by Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961 with a mission to preserve the state rooms and educate the public. It will run lectures and other programming out of the club and choose what's on the shelves: biographies on every U.S. president, a section for children, and photo books on White House décor, plus a section devoted to First Ladies - My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan was turned with its cover facing the room."
A visitor at the Waldorf Astoria's Presidential Library and Bar noticed a small brass plaque marking a wicker rocker as belonging to John F. Kennedy, a regular of the hotel's Presidential Suite. The hotel features historical security and access features such as bulletproof-glass windows, a private elevator, and a semi-secret train line once used by Franklin D. Roosevelt. The upper floors house 372 condominiums and a residents-only bar and club designed by Jean-Louis Deniot. The club's library is curated by the White House Historical Association, founded by Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961, and will offer presidential biographies, children's books, photo books on White House décor, and a First Ladies section.
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