The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States of America. The White House is a white-painted, neoclassical sandstone mansion located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. (38°53′51″N, 77°02′12″W). As the office of the U.S. President, the term "White House" is often used as a metonym for the president's administration. The property is owned by the Nati ...

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Very few people realize the size of the White House, since much of it is below ground or otherwise minimized by landscaping. In fact, the White House has: 6 stories and 55,000 ft² (5,100 m²) of floor space 132 rooms and 35 bathrooms [2] 412 doors 147 windows 28 fireplaces 8 staircases 3 elevators 5 full-time chefs 5,000 visitors a day a tennis court a bowling lane a movie theater a jogg ...

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The White House was built after Congress established the District of Columbia as the permanent capital of the United States on July 16, 1790. President George Washington helped select the site, along with city planner Pierre L'Enfant. The architect was chosen in a competition, which received nine proposals. James Hoban, an Irishman, was awarded the honor and construction began with the laying of the cornerstone on October 13, 1792. The building Hoban designed was modeled on the first and second floors of Leinster House, a ducal palace ...

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2003-present: Scott McClellan 2001 - 2003 : Ari Fleischer 2000 - 2001 : Jake Siewert 1998 - 2000 : Joe Lockhart 1994 - 1998 : Mike McCurry 1993 - 1994 : Dee Dee Myers 1989 - 1993 : Marlin Fitzwater 1987 - 1989 : Marlin Fitzwater (de facto Press Secretary) 1981 - 1987 : Larry Speakes (de facto Press Secretary) 1981 - 1989 : James Brady (did not brief the press after March 30, 1981) 1977 - 1981 : Jody Powell 1974 - 1977 : Ro ...

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The White House Chief of Staff is the highest-ranking member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, and a senior aide to the President. It can be a very powerful position, and the Chief of Staff is sometimes dubbed "The Second-Most Powerful Man in Washington" (after the President). The duties of the White House Chief of Staff can vary greatly from administration to administration, but generally he (and all have been male, to date) is responsible for overseeing the actions of other members of White House ...

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Chelsea Victoria Clinton (born February 27, 1980) is the only child of former President Bill Clinton and United States Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Chelsea was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her name was inspired by her parents' fondness for the Judy Collins recording of the Joni Mitchell song Chelsea Morning. Chelsea Clinton - Teenager at the White House. Clinton moved into the White House on the day of her father's inauguration on January 20, 1993 when she was 13 years old. She sp ...

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American human rights activist, stateswoman, journalist, educator, author, and diplomat. As the wife of President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, the longest serving First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. An active First Lady, she traveled around the United States promoting the New Deal and visited troops at the frontlines during World War II. She was a first-wave Feminist (but opposed the Equal Rights Amendment), an ...

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Alfred Lambremont Webre (born May 24, 1942) is an author, lawyer, environmentalist and a space activist who promotes the ban of space weapons. He was born in a U.S. Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida. He is the co-architect of the Space Preservation Treaty and the Space Preservation Act that was introduced to the U.S. Congress by Congressman Dennis Kucinich and is endorsed by 274 NGO's worldwide. He helped draft the Citizen Hearing in 2000 with Stephen Bassett and serves as a member of the Board of Advisors. He is presently the I ...

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Rome (Italian and Latin: Roma) is the capital of Italy and of its Latium region. It is located on the Tiber and Aniene rivers, near the Mediterranean Sea, at 41°54′N 12°29′E. The Vatican City, a sovereign enclave within Rome, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Church and the home of the Pope. Rome is the largest city and comune in Italy; the comune or municipality is one of the largest in Europe with an area of 1290 square kilometers. Within the city limits, the population is 2,823,807 (2004); almost 4 million live in the general area of Rome as represented by the province of Rome. Th ...

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Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 15, 1915) was an African American political leader, educator and author. He was one of the dominant figures in African American history from 1890 to 1915. He was born into slavery at the community of Hale's Ford in Franklin County, Virginia. As a young man he made his way east from West Virginia to obtain schooling at Hampton in eastern Virginia at a school established to train teachers. In his later years, Dr. Washington became a leading educator and was a prominent and ...

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The Plumbers came to include several Watergate figures. E. Howard Hunt was recommended by Colson and G. Gordon Liddy was recommended by Krogh. Liddy coined his own sensitivity indicator for the group in the form of "ODESSA" for "Organization Directed to Eliminate the Subversion of the Secrets of the Administration".4 The name reflects Liddy's admiration for German-style intelligence operations as ODES ...

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The group was formed in an almost direct response to the release of The Pentagon Papers in the New York Times beginning June 13, 1971. The papers contained documents detailing America's involvement in Vietnam. Initially White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman downplayed the event to Nixon, stating the information mainly made the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations look bad. However, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and special counsel Charles Colson advocated a severe response to the act1 ...

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The Plumbers first task was the burglary of the office of Ellsberg's Los Angeles psychiatrist, Lewis J. Fielding, in an effort to uncover evidence to discredit Ellsberg. The operation was reportedly unsuccessful in finding Ellsberg's file and was so reported to the White House. However, Fielding himself stated the file was in his office, he found it on the floor on the morning after the burglary and quite clearly someone had gone through it.6 In a September 1971 conversation, Ehrlichma ...

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Fala moved into the White House on November 10, 1940. He spent most of his time there until Roosevelt died and was succeeded by Harry S Truman in April 1945. Fala also traveled with Roosevelt to his home (Springwood) in Hyde Park, New York and Warm Springs, Georgia (Roosevelt's favorite spa town) which helped him with his polio-induced paralysis. Every morning Fala was given a bone that came in with Roosevelt's breakfast tray; at nights he was fed dinner. However, in Fala's first few weeks in the White House, he was sent to the veteri ...

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Clinton moved into the White House on the day of her father's inauguration on January 20, 1993 when she was 13 years old. She spent her teenage years there and attended the elite private Sidwell Friends School. She was a National Merit Scholarship semifinalist in 1997. Although she was generally kept out of the public eye, there were a few notable exceptions. In August 1998, a couple of days after President Clinton's address to the nation in which he admitted to an inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky, Clinton was placed pr ...

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White House Secret Service logs of Jeff Gannon's White House entries and exits were requested and obtained by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) using the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act). These logs, listing entry and exit show at least 14 times when Gannon either failed to check in (and then checked out) or checked in and failed to check out. Some critics also noted that there Gannon had over 20 visits on days with no scheduled press briefing. Others poined out that brief ...

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Although Fleischer served as communications director for Elizabeth Dole during her presidential run in the 2000 election campaign, he joined George W. Bush's presidential campaign after Dole dropped out of the race. When Bush became president the next year, he tapped Fleischer to be his first press secretary. Fleischer first introduced a new phrase, homicide bombing, to denote suicide bombing, on April 12, 2002, in an attempt to emphasize the negative connotations of the tactic. The president ... convened a meeting ...

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Following the death of her husband in 1945, Roosevelt continued to live on the Hyde Park Estate, in Val-Kill, the house that her husband had remodeled for her near the mainhouse. Originally built as a small furniture factory for Val-Kill Industries, Val-Kill afforded Eleanor with a level of privacy that she had wanted for many years. Here she entertained her circle of friends in informal gatherings. The site is now the home of the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill, dedicated to "Eleanor Roosevelt's belief that people can enhance the qu ...

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Whitehouse Station is located at 40°37'3" North, 74°46'12" West (40.617552, -74.769898)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.4 km² (1.3 mi²). 3.3 km² (1.3 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 3.01% water. ...

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