The White House portrait unveiling won't be taking place between President Obama and President Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.
"It is a somewhat daunting experience to have your portrait hung in the White House," former first lady Hillary Clinton said at the unveiling of her and President Bill Clinton's portraits in 2004."It is something that really does, more than any other act, sort of put your place in history in this building for all the ages and all the people who come through here to see and reflect upon.
The process for the White House portraits begins near the end of a president's term or soon after, and it takes a few years to complete. Typically, the next step would be to schedule sittings for the president and the first lady, followed by a back-and-forth with the artist about what they like and don't like. And once the portraits are approved by the president and the first lady, they are delivered to the White House curator, who schedules an unveiling.
The first formal East Room unveiling with a president and his immediate predecessor appears to have been in 1980, when Jimmy Carter welcomed Gerald Ford back to the White House. Carter had defeated Ford just four years earlier. Three months after he hosted Ford, Carter lost his bid for re-election to Ronald Reagan.
Gerald Rafshoon, Carter's White House communications director, told NBC News that he didn't know the details of why a ceremony wouldn't have happened, but he said that the former president was focused on setting up his library after leaving office and that a ceremony in his honor wouldn't have been his style.
"There are really no words to convey what it means to Nancy and me to be here," Reagan said at the event, hosted by his vice president and successor, George H.W. Bush.
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