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A widely circulated figure — roughly $376 million — refers to a congressionally authorized White House modernization project whose funding was approved before Barack Obama took office and whose purpos...
The assembled analyses conclude that , with reported averages clustering around , though reported endpoint values and pandemic disruptions complicate simple comparisons . Multiple pieces note that Tru...
— has never been a U.S. possession or part of the , though has repeatedly sought to control or influence the island through wartime defense arrangements, base rights and several purchase proposals tha...
Donald Trump’s admitted use of an autopen—saying he used it “only for very unimportant papers”—places him in a long line of presidents who have relied on automated signature machines, but his public c...
The available reporting does not yield a single, universally agreed numeric tally of “how many times the White House has been renovated,” but multiple timelines indicate , with at least one source exp...
Congress has overridden a presidential veto between in U.S. history according to major compilations, with the authoritative Senate tally listing out of 2,597 vetoes (the discrepancy to older counts re...
Presidents have repeatedly sent U.S. forces, including Marines, into combat or combat-like operations without a prior formal declaration of war by Congress; Justice Department and congressional-histor...
The historical record shows widely divergent estimates for casualties from a hypothetical U.S. invasion of Japan in 1945, ranging from figures the U.S. Joint Chiefs projected for the Kyushu landings t...
Several presidents before Barack Obama altered the White House’s recreational footprint — from billiard rooms and bowling lanes to a therapeutic indoor pool and outdoor courts — reflecting changing pe...
Donald Trump repeatedly made sweeping historical and factual claims that were contradicted by historians, journalists and fact‑checkers — examples include the “River of Blood” Civil War claim, oversta...
Yes — Denmark has sold territory to the United States in the past: Copenhagen transferred the Danish West Indies (today’s U.S. Virgin Islands) to Washington in 1917 in a transaction shaped by strategi...
The Smith–Mundt Act of 1948 (formally the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act) was enacted to authorize and shape U.S. government information and cultural programs overseas — to “pr...
The White House gained , initially to supply drinking water and reservoirs for fire protection, with a designated bathing room added in the east wing soon after; sources agree this was an early partia...
The core claim — that the White House has an indoor basketball court built in 2009 by President Barack Obama — is by multiple summaries that say Obama adapted a tennis court for basketball in 2009, bu...
has never owned ; U.S. forces have held basing rights and repeatedly sought to purchase or control the island, but sovereignty has remained (and increasingly Greenlandic under home rule) throughout mo...
Presidents have historically altered the White House through renovations, redecorations, and major reconstructions, but those changes occur within a mix of , not unchecked presidential authority. Hist...
Recent U.S. polls show President Donald Trump’s overall approval and favorability are weak compared with many past presidents at similar points in their terms: several national surveys in November 202...
Executive Summary Two distinct White House pools exist in its modern history: an and an , and multiple presidents used one or the other, but the available sources do not produce a single, definitive t...
has never owned ; it has at times acted as the island’s military protector, sought to purchase it, and secured extensive basing rights, but sovereignty has remained Danish and was reaffirmed by intern...
Autopen use by U.S. presidents has long been treated as legally permissible when the president authorizes it; the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel concluded in 2005 that a president may di...