Collection State Dinners
A State Dinner honoring a visiting head of government or reigning monarch is one of the grandest and most glamorous...
Construction over the swimming pool
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Construction over the swimming pool
President Nixon ensured no harm was done to the swimming pool when it was decked over to provide greatly expanded space in the West Colonnade for the White House press corps in 1970. Work was interrupted in late 1969 by the discovery of the underground rooms from Thomas Jefferson’s time and their subsequent excavation. The curved stone wall may show what remained of Jefferson’s ice house.
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