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71 unusual facts about White House


1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

The White House, the United States presidential residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.

1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

During the Theodore Roosevelt administration a meeting was held at the White House with various college athletic officials in attendance to discuss the violence in football.

25U signal support systems specialist

25U signal support system specialist is sometimes referred to as 25 Universal due to the openness and flexibility of the MOS, as the person can be assigned from anywhere to Infantry, rangers, higher headquarters, an armored unit, PsyOps, public affairs, or even the Communication Room at the White House.

355th Fighter Wing

In the television series The West Wing, White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry flew F-105s for the 355th Tactical Fighter Wing during the Vietnam War.

A Tuna Christmas

Sears and Williams did command performances of both Greater Tuna and A Tuna Christmas at the White House for President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush.

Abbey Bartlet

She appears as a regular during the third through sixth seasons, despite the fact that there are many episodes in which she does not appear, a fact consistent with real life, where the First Lady must perform official duties all over the country and therefore cannot stay constantly with her husband at the White House.

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It is only after he collapses and is confronted by Leo that she reveals their secret to a member of the White House senior staff.

Angolan War of Independence

The aircraft were flown to Africa by John Richard Hawke – reportedly a former Royal Air Force-pilot – who on the start of one of the flights to Angola flew so low over the White House, that the United States Air Force forced him to land and he was arrested.

Anne Williams Wheaton

On May 2, 1957, in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's office, Wheaton was sworn in as Associate Press Secretary at the White House.

Annual Reminder

Activist Craig Rodwell conceived of the event following an April 17, 1965 picket at the White House by members of the New York City and Washington, D.C. chapters of the Mattachine Society, Philadelphia's Janus Society and the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis.

Bali White

White was invited to The White House Office of Public Engagement's A Policy Briefing for Black LGBT Emerging Leaders.

Batumi

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Beaulieu Vineyard

By the 1940s, Beaulieu wines were served at all major White House functions.

Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport

A press release issued by the White House said that the “prohibition of transportation services to Lebanon...is hereby further amended to permit U.S.

Betty Boop for President

Betty's campaign promises win the crowd over, and she is voted into the White House by a landslide.

Bright Sheng

In 1999, the White House commissioned Sheng to compose a piece to honor the Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji at a state dinner hosted by President Bill Clinton.

Calvert Vaux

Together they designed many significant projects, such as the grounds in the White House and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. Vaux’s work on the Smithsonian inspired an article he wrote for The Horticulturalist, of which Downing was the editor, in which he stated his view that it was time the government should recognize and support the arts.

Carterpuri

Till Carter was President, there was regular exchange of correspondence between the White House and the Village Council.

Chief Judge Fargo

After armed gangs stormed the White House and were able to avoid jail sentences by intimidating juries, Fargo outlined a New Deal to scrap the principle of due process and create a combined police and judicial force who could fairly dispense instant justice – the Judges.

Cliff Wiley

As a member of the 1980 team he was invited to the White House to meet President Jimmy Carter.

Daniel Patrick Kessler

He was given a presidential commission to paint the White House, and one of his paintings was used by President Clinton and Mrs. Clinton as their Christmas card in 1996.

Deborah Fiderer

Finally prevailed upon to do so by the White House staff, Bartlet expressed to Charlie an expectation that most of the proposed candidates would not meet with his approval.

Edward Hibberd Johnson

In 1895, U.S. President Grover Cleveland proudly sponsored the first electrically lit Christmas tree in the White House.

Enrique Granados

It is commonly transcribed for classical guitar as presented here by Sharon Isbin at the White House Classical Music Student Workshop Concert (2009-11-04)

Ernest J. Wilson III

He was director of International Programs and Resources on the White House National Security Council (1993–1994); director of the Policy and Planning Unit, Office of the Director, U.S. Information Agency (1994); and deputy director of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission (1994–1995).

Fort Hollingsworth–White House

The Fort Hollingsworth–White House is a well-preserved example of an early frontier fort built in Alto, Georgia in the late 18th century.

George D. Pyper

In 1911, Pyper managed a 6000-mile American tour for the choir, wherein they performed in Madison Square Gardens and at the White House for U.S. President William Howard Taft.

GlobalHell

A few of the systems they broke into include those of United States Army, the White House, United States Cellular, Ameritech and the US Postal Service.

Harvey Lembeck

President Lyndon Johnson chose this company to give a command performance at the White House.

Helen Boehm

She took on the promotional side of the business, selling pieces to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and offering a porcelain bull to Mamie Eisenhower after wrangling an invitation to the White House.

Hiraga Gennai

In Read Or Die, Gennai uses his elekiter as a very high powered destructive weapon that he uses to destroy the White House and eradicate an entire fleet of combat helicopters.

History of Pittsburgh's South Side

The location was so nationally recognized for production, Presidents Andrew Jackson and James Monroe ordered glass tableware for the White House from companies operating in the area.

Hitachiyama Taniemon

He met President Theodore Roosevelt and performed the yokozuna dohyō-iri (the yokozuna ring-entering ceremony) in the White House.

Honest Tea

In 2009, Honest Tea US got an unpaid endorsement when The New York Times revealed that the White House is now stocking Honest Tea, as it is President Barack Obama's preferred beverage- specifically, the "Black Forest Berry" and "Green Dragon" flavors.

Hybrid Heaven

Johnny's personal motive to help him stay focused is that he must make it back in time to meet his girlfriend under the Christmas tree on the White House lawn.

Introduction to Outer Space

Introduction to Outer Space is a pamphlet about space exploration edited by the White House the 26 March 1958.

James Shanahan

Following the end of the war, he returned to the United States to serve as an aide in the Truman White House.

Jim Langer

In 2013, President Barack Obama honored the entire 1972 Perfect Season Dolphins at an event in the White House, but Langer declined to attend for political reasons.

Johnny Rutherford

Rutherford, whom has been invited to The White House on behalf of Indy on multiple occasions, is considered a popular ambassador and spokesman for the sport of Indy car racing.

Little Loomhouse

While visiting the Loomhouse, Mrs. Roosevelt bought woven mats that would see use in the White House.

Lou Chiozza

In the White House, president Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a button that lit up Crosley Field, where a crowd of 20,422 fans, sizable for a last-place team in the middle of the Great Depression, came out to watch the game.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko

Pavlichenko was sent to Canada and the United States for a publicity visit and became the first Soviet citizen to be received by a US President when Franklin Roosevelt welcomed her to the White House.

Mandy Hampton

She was White House media consultant during the first season of the show, and the former girlfriend of Deputy White House Chief of Staff Josh Lyman, with whom she often clashed.

Martha Van Rensselaer

In 1930, she played a leadership role in the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection, which set a critical Progressive Era agenda for youth health, social policy, and education.

Maryland Route 390

16th Street Northwest heads south from the circle toward the White House.

Message to the Grass Roots

He said the impetus behind the march was the masses of African Americans, who were angry and threatening to march on the White House and the Capitol.

Michael Ray Aquino

He contacted his friend Leandro Aragoncillo, a Philippine-born security specialist at the White House; however, Aragoncillo's efforts on Aquino's behalf eventually led to Aragoncillo's being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Millennium Development Goals

Attempts to increase U.S. political attention to the Millennium Development Goals include The Borgen Project which worked with then Senator Barack Obama on the Global Poverty Act, a bill requiring the White House to develop a strategy for achieving the goals.

Miriam Sharpe

In the weeks following the Stamford disaster she managed to create a support base that would gather hundreds to march on the White House, influence super-humans and eventually convince congress and the president to pass the superhuman registration act.

Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent

The factory that produces the erasers used by the White House has stopped production; any attempts to contact the factory are met with bizarre puzzles.

New Kosovo Alliance

He is the founding owner of Mabetex, the Swiss-based project-engineering firm that has managed significant engineering projects ranging from restorations in the White House in the United States to the rebuilding the Kremlin in Moscow.

NorthWind II

Her interior was decorated by Maison Jansen, the renowned French design firm whose clients included the John F. Kennedy White House, Coco Chanel, the Rockefellers, King Leopold II of Belgium, and the Shah of Iran.

Put Down Your Whip

The great actress Wang Ying even performed an English version of the play in the White House for President Roosevelt, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and many diplomats.

Qualifying Industrial Zone

Unfazed by this response, Salah traveled to the United States and lobbied hard with the US State Department, the White House, and the US Trade Representative that it was in US interests to extend the QIZ into Jordan's interiors.

Renee Walker

During Juma's siege on the White House, Renee and Larry help coordinate the rescue operations and counterattack.

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When Juma and his men leave, Renee jumps to their boat where she discovers their target to be the White House.

Ring signature

For instance, a ring signature could be used to provide an anonymous signature from "a high-ranking White House official", without revealing which official signed the message.

Roland Hedley

In this post he gets in trouble with his fellow journalists Rick Redfern and Mark Slackmeyer when they find out that he is taking bribes from the White House in order to give them "softballs" at press conferences.

Roy Nichols

Highlights include Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Gardens, the White House for one President, and the Summer White House for another President.

Scott Schoeneweis

He is actively involved in the Office of the White House National Drug Control Policy, encouraging students to say no to drugs.

Shanksville, Pennsylvania

The hijackers had intended to crash the airplane in Washington, D.C.; destroying either the Capitol or the White House.

Stanley Glenn

In February 1994, Stanley Glenn and several other players from the Negro Leagues were honored by Vice-President Al Gore at the White House.

State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee

However, it is important to note that of the 750 issues considered by the SWNCC, most were resolved at or below the Assistant Secretary level and only six cases were forwarded to the White House for final decisions.

Taj El-Din Hilaly

In his speech, he also predicted that Muslims would control the White House and appeared to support Hezbollah.

The Children of Vallenato

The group has performed throughout the world, in many countries, including a personal presentation for former US president Bill Clinton at the White House.

To Love a Child

To Love a Child was the theme song for the Foster Grandparents program initiated by Nancy Reagan in 1982, and was performed by Reagan and Sinatra at the program's White House launch.

Tom Coughlin

Prior to the start of Giants mini-camp in May 2008, Coughlin and the Giants were invited by President Bush to the White House to honor their victory in Super Bowl XLII.

Veronique Peck

Peck and her family attended a private White House screening of To Kill a Mockingbird in 2012 with President Barack Obama to mark what would have been her late husband's 96th birthday.

Vincent Makori

Makori interviewed then president George W. Bush in 2003 and thereafter travelled with the president and the White House press corps on a five-nation trip to Africa.

Wes Borg

The show's advertising encourages patrons to "come learn about Canada's role in the burning of the White House and our successful war to keep American Democracy out of Canada."

Yamada Waka

Her prominence was such that when she visited the United States for a lecture tour, she was invited to visit Eleanor Roosevelt at the White House, which she did on December 7, 1937.


2008 Georgian spy plane shootdowns

On May 6, the United States for the first time directly accused Russia of being behind the April 20 shootdown when White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said at a press briefing that the April 20 shootdown constituted a provocative step on the part of Russia.

Chiavari chair

The Chiavari chair is used in the State Dining Room and Family Dining Room in the White House in Washington D.C., and silver Chiavaris were used during the inauguration of Barack Obama as seating for his family and guests.

David T. Johnson

In 1995, Johnson became Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs at the White House and Spokesman for the United States National Security Council.

Florencio Morales Ramos

He sang for president John F. Kennedy at the White House on November 1961, in a showcase of Puerto Rican musical talent that complemented a visit by then governor Luis Muñoz Marín to Washington.

Francisco G. Cigarroa

In December 2011, Cigarroa was invited to the White House to share his program with US President Barack Obama and US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

Frescography

These wallpaper manufacturers used thousands of engraved woodblocks for the creation of the panorama sceneries, to create wall paper such as the 20 panel Sauvages de la Mer du Pacifique which Jean-Gabriel Charvet designed for Joseph Dufour et Cie or the “du Vue de l'Amérique Nord” designed in 1834 by Zuber et cie for the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, where it is still today.

Garfinckel's Department Store

Garfinckel's Department Store is an eight-story department store building, erected at the northwest corner of 14th and F Streets, across from the Willard Hotel, which is one block from the Treasury Department and less than two blocks from the White House.

GC-45 howitzer

The investigation did not go far, and active work on the case was ended by direct intervention of the White House.

Harry S. Truman Historic District

He would live with family members in his early life, then the Wallace House, rented apartments and houses in Washington (including 4701 Connecticut Avenue), Blair House (the official state visitors residence), and the White House, but never a house that he had purchased.

James Pinkerton

A graduate of Peter Vanleslie High School and Stanford University (1980), he served on the White House staff under both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and on each of their presidential campaigns and in January 2008 became a senior adviser to the Mike Huckabee 2008 presidential campaign.

Janeen Brady

In 1983 she was invited to the White House by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Mrs. Reagan for a performance of her song, "The Great American Family".

John McShain

Most notably, the company built or was the prime contractor for a number of landmark structures including The Pentagon, the Jefferson Memorial, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Library of Congress annex, Washington National Airport, and the 1950–51 reconstruction of the White House.

Katrina refrigerator

Some inscriptions advocated the refrigerator be sent to politicians whose response to the disaster were considered lacking, for example "Sent to the White House" or "Send to Blanco".

Kostas Hatzis

It is worth noting that his fame as a singer for the peace has reached the White House and the then US President, Jimmy Carter invites him to meet him and congratulate him.

Landon Parvin

Parvin left the White House temporarily in 1985 to become executive assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to the U.K..

Louis Boekhout

Boekhout's art work can be found in public collections like at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, as well as in private collections worldwide such as Collection Le Portal Art Tour, and even at the White House.

Mikhail Matusovsky

He is famous for his lyric poems many of which became lyrics of the popular songs: "School Walz", "In the Damp Earth-Huts", "The Sacred Stone", "The Windows of Moscow", "Don't Forget" and "Moscow Nights" which was sung at the Moscow Youth Festival in 1957 and was played also by American pianist Van Cliburn in the White House in 1979, on the occasion of a visit by the former president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev.

Million Dollar Mystery

Tom Bosley has the starring role as Sidney Preston, a disgruntled White House aide who took off with $4 million that belonged to the government.

National Commission on Federal Election Reform

They released its final report to Congress and the White House on July 31, 2001.

Paul Derringer

On May 24 of that season, he started the first night game in major league history, beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1; President Franklin D. Roosevelt turned on the stadium lights from the White House.

Paul Posnak

He has performed at the White House, the US Supreme Court, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Pershing Park

In November 1963, the President's Council on Pennsylvania Avenue proposed a master plan for the redevelopment of Pennsylvania Avenue NW from the White House to the United States Capitol.

Republican Party of Virginia

All three candidates won handily in the November elections, in a victory for Republicans that was seen as a rebuke of the Democratic Party's policies in the White House and Congress.

Richard Ragan

Richard Ragan (born June 10, 1964) is a senior United Nations official, and former National Security Council Director for Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs in the Clinton White House.

Rift Valley Academy

Having met with Hurlburt in the White House in 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt visited Kijabe shortly after leaving office four years later.

Roger Connah

In the competition, the best ideas, designs, descriptions, images, and videos for a new White House were selected by some of the world's most distinguished designers and critics and during October 2008 were on display at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, which, in association with Control Group, sponsored the contest.

Ruth Johnson Colvin

She was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush on December 15, 2006, in the East Room of the White House.

SimCity DS

Real-world landmarks featured in SCDS include the Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal, Big Ben, Statue of Liberty, White House, Grand Central Terminal, Palacio Real, Moai, Capitol Records Building, United Nations Headquarters and Hagia Sophia.

Stephen M. Studdert

Stephen Mark Studdert (born 1948) served on the White House staff as Advisor to United States Presidents George Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Gerald Ford.

Stokely Webster

His paintings can be found in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the White House, Gracie Mansion in New York, the Senate Office Building, and the Museum of the City of New York.

The Singing Angels

The Singing Angels have been featured on national and international television, have performed four times at the White House and have appeared in concert with a host of superstars, including Bob Hope, Kenny Rogers, Wayne Newton, Celine Dion, B.J. Thomas, Roberta Flack, and most recently The Barenaked Ladies.

Timeline of the Saffron Revolution

White House foreign affairs spokesman Gordon Johndroe said "The United States strongly condemns the atrocities committed by the junta and calls for a full investigation into the death of Win Shwe during his detention in Burma. The junta must stop the brutal treatment of its people and peacefully transition to democracy or face new sanctions from the United States."

Ultimate Air Combat

The story begins when the White House calls an emergency meeting, where they reveal that the military dictator Don Gwano is using the high revenue from his large oil exports to fund his large army and navy.

United States Air Force Honor Guard

Ceremonies include those for visiting dignitaries and military officials, funerals for deceased Air Force personnel and their dependents, wreath-laying ceremonies at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery, White House arrival ceremonies, receptions, and other state and military occasions which comprise the Honor Guards of all five armed services (U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Coast Guard).

Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie

On 7 May 2007, she attended a state dinner at the White House, hosted by President George W. Bush and Mrs. Bush.