Friday, March 01, 2013

What the White House Looks Like Completely Gutted

The National Journal shows What the White House Looks Like Completely Gutted "The social events of the 1948 holiday season had to be canceled. And with good reason: Experts called the third floor of the White House ‘an outstanding example of a firetrap.’ The result of a federally commissioned report found the mansion’s plumbing ‘makeshift and unsanitary,’ while ‘the structural deterioration [was] in ‘appalling degree,’ and threatening complete collapse.’ The congressional commission on the matter was considering the option of abandoning the structure altogether in favor of a built-from-scratch mansion, but President Truman lobbied for the restoration."

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