Bill & Hillary Clinton – Ruth Ellen Dogwood

Courtesy William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum / NARA

Cornus x rutgersensis ‘Ruth Ellen’

April 23, 1995

Before leaving for a memorial service in Oklahoma City, President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton planted a Ruth Ellen dogwood tree on the east side of South Grounds on April 23, 1995. The tree is dedicated in memory of the victims of a terrorist bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that killed 168 individuals and injured more than 500.

 

Flowering Ruth Ellen Dogwood, left. (2025)

NPS / Kelsey Graczyk

Clinton Ruth Ellen Dogwood, 1995.

NPS / Kelsey Graczyk

Ruth Ellen Dogwood (2023)

NPS / Kelsey Graczyk

 

White House

Commemorative Tree Plantings