President franklin met with the corps of engineers after pearl harbor, and among the many negative documents, a particular one brought a week after pearl harbor called the house a fire trap. Roosevelt simply dismissed the report. I dont want to hear it. In 1945 came a president no one had ever heard much about. Harry s. Truman was a Problem Solver and considered that he had an appropriate knowledge of architecture and interior design. Some might have objected to that, but he did have a history of dealing with buildings. One might question trumans sophistication but his sensitivity towards symbols was acute. Always had been. As he was to demonstrate with this house, the corps brought to him the same documents that hed truman read them and ordered a structural investigation from the corps. He wasted no time. And the resulting death sentence predictably, the corps said the house must be torn down and reconstructed. The widowed Eleanor Roosevelt moved out from the second and third floors s
Circle up with four circular pieces, which contain staircases that curve down and went down to the crypt because in the first design and then again in 1815, he retains that because it was many people still held out the hope that the washington family would allow George Washingtons remains to be built to be installed in the crypt at the capitol. So latrobe had accounted for that in his design for the rotunda. Thank you very much. Thank you. Our next speaker will be William Seale. And to us at the association, he doesnt really need much introduction. Hes been a part of our organization as an adviser to our board for at least as the time he published his president s house in 1986. Hes been a mentor to us on the staff with research eeducation, publication. Over all those many years and now is the editor of our white house history publication that you all received a complementary copy in your packets. I hope youll enjoy that and hopefully become a subscriber to our journal and keeping up wi
In philadelphia. Good morning, jim. Reporter good morning, alisyn. Donald Trump Campaign isnt worried about todays results. Hoping to pull a lot of these states. And something that caught trumps attention, a deal that could slow his march to the nomination. Lyin ted. Not reporter sensing an opportunity in the new alliance between ted cruz and john kasich, donald trump isnt just smelling blood, hes going in for the kill. A doublebarreled attack on both cruz. Hes a joker. He cannot do it. So he said, let me form a partnership, which i call what do we call it . Called collusion, folks. Reporter and cakasich. Like a spoiled guy. Im not getting out, mom. Im not getting out. Reporter trump even ridiculed kasichs eating habits as unpresident ial. Then you see him eating in the morning. Did you ever see i have never seen. Hes stuffing pancakes in his mouth like this. He has no answer. How do you bring jobs back to america, beyond just printing it on a baseball cap . Reporter with a few oneline
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