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Mr. president, we're going to board over jack kennedy's swimming pool. and that's how the present briefing room came to be. >> but the room you're used to didn't look this way when first constructed. >> mr. president? >> says ann compton. she reported from the white house for more than 40 years. >> the briefing room itself looked like a doctor's waiting room with big stuffed sofas and captains chairs and people milling around all day. >> behind and under the press briefing room, the nixon administration built office space for the press corps. >> on the first floor. down below, there's a baseme...

She reported from the white house for more than 40 years. >> the briefing room itself looked like a doctor's waiting room with big stuffed sofas and chairs and people milling around all day. >> behind and under the press briefing room, the nixon administration built office space for the press corps. >> on the first floor. down below, there's a basement which we nicknamed after a russian prison. >> cnn has been in the basement since 1980. >> this is what we affectionately call the booth. >> we were assigned there as a startup network. fox is right next door. >> it's a very small space. >> nine ...