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Tents have been a routine, practical solution for large White House functions—especially state dinners—when indoor rooms (the East Room seats about 200) could not accommodate guest lists; presidents f...
President Donald Trump made the remark linking Vladimir Putin and World War II while speaking at a White House event on June 12, 2025, where he recounted conversations with world leaders about Victory...
The reporting presents two competing capacity figures for the new White House Ballroom: a in official White House announcements and several news reports (July–September 2025), and reported in October ...
The available documents show that historically most formal White House state dinners have been held indoors in the or the East Room when larger capacity was needed, while tents on the South Lawn or th...
State dinners at the White House are formal events hosted for a visiting head of state; seating is carefully planned by the First Lady’s social office and historically follows diplomatic rank but toda...
Outdoor tented gatherings have been a routine solution when the White House needs space beyond the East Room’s roughly 200-seat capacity; reporters and historical accounts document presidential events...
The White House’s traditional largest interior event space is the East Room, which holds about 200 people . Since July 2025 the White House has announced construction of a new “White House State Ballr...
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 ...
State-floor presidential events have long shifted between formal indoor ceremonies in rooms like the East Room and ad hoc outdoor tents; recent reporting and encyclopedia updates note a 2025 push to b...
The East Room is the White House’s largest state room, designed in the original plan by James Hoban and developed as a multifunctional "Public Audience Room," with a history of major repairs, redecora...
The available reporting about the White House ballroom capacity contains : contemporary White House communications initially described a seated capacity of , while later statements and multiple news p...
The White House ballroom is described across these sources as the administration’s primary new venue for , with plans to increase seating capacity substantially and to shift some large gatherings curr...
The supplied analyses converge on a single prominent claim: a new, large is reported to be under construction or announced, intended to host larger presidential and state events than current White Hou...
The new White House ballroom is described across multiple accounts as a purpose-built, large-capacity space intended to host that currently strain the East Room; reported capacity figures vary widely ...
Jacqueline Kennedy led a high-profile White House restoration in 1961–1963 that targeted multiple state and private rooms, aiming to restore historic furnishings and present American presidential hist...