Official 2020 White House Christmas Ornament Honoring JFK 35th President

The White House historical association official, 2020 White House ornament honoring John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States. With this ornament, we remember President Kennedy through his posthumous official White House portrait made in 1970 by Aaron Shikler, The artist selected by the president's widow, Jacqueline Kennedy. The portrait symbolic of his unfinished presidency hangs in the White House today. Shikler recalled that Mrs Kennedy did not want the portrait to look the way other artists have portrayed him. I painted him with his head bowed, not because I think of him as a martyr, Shikler said. But because I wanted to show him as a president who was a thinker. All presidential portraits have eyes that look right at you. I wanted to do something with more meaning. I hope to show a courage that made him humble. The reverse of the ornament features the dates of President Kennedy's brief term 1961-1963. On the other side of an engraving of the White House. The White House as it is today is another Kennedy legacy. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy restored the furnishings and decor of the state rooms to give the era of the early presidents and invited the public to view them in a television special. The White House belongs to the American people She said. The White House historical association which Mrs Kennedy founded in 1961 continues today to fulfill the mission she envisioned to enhance understanding, appreciation and enjoyment