White House
Background
The White House is the official home and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian style, it has been the executive residence of every U.S. President since John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the home in 1801, he, with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades which were meant to conceal stables and storage.
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" Even in good times, Washington can't afford to continue these bad practices. In bad times, it's absolutely imperative that Washington stop them and restore confidence "
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WBIR
Talk about an exclusive Washington club!
Former Presidents Bush, Clinton, Carter, and the President Elect
chatted Wednesday at the White House.
But Barack Obama also got more bad economic news, and vowed, when he takes office, to cut spending in
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WBIR
Latest news - About White House
...(UPI) -- An Atlanta resident says the struggling U.S. economy has forced him to place his home, a scaled-down replica of the White House, up for sale. Iranian-American home developer Fred Milani said he is selling the 16,500 square-foot replica home in Atlanta...
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United Press International
...(Annie Wersching) drags him out of the hearing. How can Jack help? You'll find out ... Meanwhile, President Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones) has entered the White House after her son's apparent suicide, while a humanitarian crisis in Sangala is well under way. BOTTOM...
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New York Newsday
...its first two bills of the 111th session yesterday, with both carrying ramifications for the outgoing president. Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), the newly-minted chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, introduced both the Presidential...
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Real Clear Politics
...Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that the House will take up President-elect Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan within days of his inauguration and won’t go home for Congress’ mid-February recess until a package has been sent to the White House. “We are staying...
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The Politico
...Take advantage of easy opportunities to showcase the positive, the healthy, and the true “green” in our country. Take the White House Egg Roll, for example. The longest standing tradition of the White House, for over one hundred years children have gathering...
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Sustainablog
...to keep some of its disputed records at the White House instead of turning them over immediately to the National Archives. Congressional Democrats have subpoenaed documents sought by investigators of the controversial firings of nine federal prosecutors....
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WIS
Jake Tapper is ABC News' Senior White House Correspondent based in the network's Washington bureau. He writes about politics and popular culture and covers a range of national stories.
Here's our GMA report on President-elect Barack Obama's speech on
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ABC News
As a follow up to a previous post of mine regarding Rachel Maddow's hissy fit over the Obama family having to endure staying at the fancy Hay-Adams Hotel, the mainstream media jumped into the mystery machine and gave themselves a bunch of Scooby snacks
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Newsbusters
...special scrutiny to the Holder nomination, especially due to his advisory role in Bill Clinton's pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich — whose wife was a major Democratic donor. Rove, the former White House political director, said in a December television...
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MSNBC
...Sunstein will be appointed regulatory czar in the Obama White House. Sunstein met President-elect Barack Obama at University of Chicago law school, where both served on the faculty. Sunstein will be quite a shift from Bush appointees to the White House Office...
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ABC News
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" Right now is not the time to worry about the debt "
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WBIR
" All the gentlemen here understand both the pressures and the possibilities of this office. And for me to have the opportunity to get advice, good counsel, and fellowship with these individuals is extraordinary "
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WBIR
" We want you to succeed. Whether we're democrat or republican we care deeply about this country "
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WBIR
...Obama and three former Oval Office occupants. Obama, who will take office Jan. 20, and Bush were joined by former Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton for a meal and conversation that lasted 90 minutes. We want you to succeed, Bush...
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The News
The meeting, which has been dubbed as an "extraordinary gathering" by Obama, saw George H W Bush, George W Bush, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and the President-elect himself standing together in the Oval Office of the White House for a photo opportunity.
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New Kerala
WASHINGTON -- Confronting a grim economy and a Middle East on fire, Barack Obama turned Wednesday to perhaps the only people on the planet who understand what he's in for: the four living members of the U.S. presidents' club.
In an image bound to go
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The Delaware News Journal
Last Week - About White House
...years. They will discuss the future of the United Nations and the challenges that remain, such as U.N. reform, the Middle East, Burma, Somalia, and peacekeeping in Darfur. The President will stress the need for a United Nations that can act effectively to...
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The White House
...Nations and remaining challenges such as UN reform, the Middle East, Burma, Somalia, and peacekeeping in Darfur, said National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe in a statement. First Lady Laura Bush will also join the affair. “This meeting will be...
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A Pakistan News
...tapped into the pipelines. Washington responded to yesterday's shutdown by warning Russia that a "predictable" energy flow to Ukraine was essential. Urging Moscow to restore supplies, a White House spokesman said Russia should bear in mind "the humanitarian...
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The Independent
...ABC News' Rachel Martin Reports: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to reporters at the White House after briefing President Bush this morning about the situation in the Middle East. It's not often that Rice stops to talk to the press during trips...
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ABC News
...Washington Post is reporting that U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, will meet Monday to discuss a stimulus plan for the ailing U.S. economy. The newspaper said in its Thursday edition the two Democrats...
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Chosun Ilbo
...news have a bone to pick w/ dubya? i thought they were part of the cheerleading team? better late than never… Marc Rich….ring a bell. Oh yea his pardon was just fine. Trust me, we won’t be talking about Toussie eight years from now. Personally, I recognize...
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Think Progress
...- White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten and national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley remember conferring with President Bush during the darkest days of the Iraq war, in 2005 and 2006, when violence was out of control. In daily 7 a.m. meetings in the...
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MSNBC
... Creature Today, taking center stage on the Bush Legacy tour is national security adviser Stephen Hadley and White House chief of staff Josh Bolten: Bolten said another of his goals when he took over was to try to get the country to see the likable boss he...
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The Reaction
...in 2000, the chances of a settlement are even slighter today. At Camp David, the Palestinians had a leader, in the shape of Yasser Arafat, who could implement any agreement he signed. For all his many faults – including the fact that he was a lying fantasist...
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The Telegraph
...wonders if it's exactly that difference that has kept young boys -- with the exception of John F. Kennedy, Jr. -- out of the White House for the last 80 years. She muses, somewhat hilariously, if boys just can't behave long enough for their parents even consider...
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ParentDish
Last Month - About White House
WASHINGTON - Weary Democratic congressional leaders pushed to clear the final obstacles to a $15 billion bailout of U.S. automakers Tuesday night, but the rescue plan faced new snags as Republicans raised deep concerns.
Top Democrats said they were
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Santa Maria Times
...and politicians who have also received the title, including former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and supermodel Naomi Campbell. Don't laugh! The "Nanny star" has expressed serious interest in taking over Hil's senate seat. Oprah Winfrey says she continues...
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New York Daily News
...Barack Obama's now-vacant U.S. Senate seat would have been the best that money could buy. Alas, according to U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald (yes, the same Lewis "Scooter" Libby prosecutor), the money would have gone to the Illinois governor, a former House...
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Los Angeles Times
...White House," he said. "Before that, I don't think there is anything that can, or should, be done." Turkish President Abdullah Gul is due in Israel in January for a three-day state visit. Several joint policies regarding Iran and Syria are expected to be...
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Haaretz
...to the White House. These members of the 111th Congress received money from Rep. Blagojevich during his time in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1997 and 2002: Raised $1.8 million and...
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Open Secrets
...approval for days. "I think that not only myself, but several of us will be looking at possibly blocking this package," Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) told CNBC. The core of the bill - and its aim - was not in dispute among the White House and Democratic leaders....
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New York Newsday
...do not appear to me to be differences in principle of a sufficient nature to blow this thing up," Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the Financial Services Committee chairman, told reporters. Earlier, he privately briefed House Democrats on the deal negotiations...
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Canadian Business Online
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Reuters
...of issues, some of them just small and technical and other ones a little bit more meaty," said White House press secretary Dana Perino. "There will not be long-term financing if they cannot prove long-term viability," she said, although the White House and...
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Reuters
... WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional aides and a senior administration official say the White House and congressional Democrats have reached an agreement in principle to speed $15 billion in government loans to struggling U.S. automakers. Screen names can o...
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Dallas Morning News