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Melania Trump is primarily living and working at the White House in Washington, D.C., while continuing to spend time at properties in New York (Trump Tower) and Florida (Mar-a-Lago); she told Fox News...
Confirmed public reporting shows at least one official subterranean passage from the White House East Wing to the Treasury Building — roughly 761 feet long — built in the World War II era as an evacua...
President Harry S. Truman ordered a near-total interior reconstruction of the White House between 1948–1952 because the building was judged structurally unsafe and obsolete, requiring replacement of w...
The White House contains an underground complex—including the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) and at least one pedestrian tunnel to adjacent executive buildings—that is controlled and ...
The US President’s compensation combines a fixed statutory salary of with several designated allowances — typically cited as for expenses, for entertainment, and a non-taxable travel account — produci...
The major White House gut-and-rebuild project that began in 1948 (work ran roughly 1948–1952) was overseen by a committee and carried out under the authority of the federal government with engineering...
President Harry S. Truman ordered comprehensive White House renovations because inspectors and architects found the building , with deteriorating beams, a sinking foundation, and outdated systems that...
The White House immediately before President Harry S. Truman’s 1949–1952 reconstruction was widely described as , with weakened wooden beams, a sinking foundation, and obsolete plumbing and electrical...
President Donald Trump is the only chief executive explicitly identified in the provided materials as having used , chiefly a new ballroom and Rose Garden work, with reported private contributions cov...
President Harry S. Truman ordered a near-total reconstruction of the White House between 1948 and 1952 that left only the exterior stone walls intact and replaced the building’s internal structure to ...
Major, documented White House renovation programs since Truman include the full interior reconstruction ordered after 1948 (funded initially by a 1946 Congressional appropriation) and recurring additi...
The 1948–1952 White House reconstruction was overseen by a federal Commission that brought together government officials, consulting engineers, and two named architects — Lorenzo S. Winslow as the chi...
Major 2025 renovation work — notably demolition of large portions of the East Wing to build a new State Ballroom — has disrupted parts of the First Family’s usual private and staff spaces and touches ...
Contemporary accounts and institutional histories agree the Truman-era gutting and rebuilding of the White House (1948–1952) cost roughly $5.7 million at the time, a figure cited repeatedly by the Whi...
Harry S. Truman led by far the most extensive gutting and reconstruction of the White House in the modern era, effectively dismantling the interior and rebuilding on new foundations while keeping the ...
Hosting foreign dignitaries at the White House is governed by established diplomatic protocol and the Office of the Chief of Protocol, which handles visits, ceremonial details, press arrangements and ...
The Truman White House reconstruction — described as a near-total gutting of the Executive Residence that left only the exterior walls — was carried out from about late 1948/1949 until the Trumans ret...
The recent demolition of the White House East Wing to make way for a privately funded grand ballroom has already altered parts of the residence and stirred debate about where the First Family and staf...
Harry Truman’s late-1940s White House renovation was essentially a structural gutting of the Executive Residence: crews removed the interior down to a new steel-and-concrete skeleton, built new deep f...
The best-documented estimate for White House renovations during the Reagan presidency is , compiled from Freedom of Information Act requests and interviews; the true total is likely higher because spe...