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Senior White House staff signed nondisclosure agreements at Trump's request

"We did not use nondisclosure agreements in the Obama White House because we worked for a president who believed in transparency and the First Amendment," said Chris Lu, who served as Obama's White House Cabinet secretary.

Chris Lu

Zinke brought security team to vacation in Turkey and Greece, records show

Traveling with security staff even on official business is “incredibly expensive,” although the actual cost would depend on the nature of the trip and which department supplied the detail, said Chris Lu, a senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center who was a White House Cabinet administrator during the Obama administration.

Chris Lu

How Dwight Eisenhower Found God in the White House

The close bond between Christianity—evangelical Protestantism, in particular—and the American presidency began to form in the 1950s. That decade was a time of extraordinary religious revival: Church membership rose from 49 percent of Americans in 1940 to 69 percent in 1960. And President Dwight D. Eisenhower—along with Graham—played an important part in encouraging this spiritual devotion. In fact, Eisenhower played a very personal role in popularizing religious faith in America.

William Hitchcock