Save the Date: Annual Holiday Book Festival

The White House Historical Association’s annual book event will feature the first day of sale of 'White House Memories, 1970–2007: Recollections of the Longest Serving Chief Usher.'

Anita McBride (left), Giovanna McBride (center) and John Hutton will be among the authors signing books at the White House Historical Association’s Annual Holiday Book Festival coming up on Dec. 5, 2025. (Photo courtesy of the White House Historical Association)

The White House Historical Association will hold its annual holiday book festival on Friday, December 5, 2025, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. local time. Free and open to the public, the event will feature book signings with nearly 30 of the Association’s best-selling authors at the White House Historical Association Carriage House, 1610 H Street N.W., in Washington, D.C.

To celebrate the first day of sale of his new memoir, former White House Chief Usher Gary J. Walters will be on hand to sign White House Memories, 1970–2007: Recollections of the Longest Serving Chief Usher. The first memoir by a White House chief usher since J.B. West’s best-selling Upstairs at the White House was released in 1973, White House Memories presents f…