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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